command line counter tool to replace "sleep"

kutlu · 12-25-2007, 07:09 AM

I am looking for a command line tool which will replace sleep command, I want it to show the countdown in command line. I am curious about how much time is left.

Slick666 · 12-25-2007, 09:48 AM

Why don't you write a shell script to do the job

Code:

for[[i=100; i>0; i--]]
do
    echo $i
    sleep 1
done

Something like that would do what you wanted and you could customize it to have the exact output you want.

bigrigdriver · 12-25-2007, 03:27 PM

#!/bin/bash

for ((i=100;i>0;i--));
do
echo $i
sleep 1
done

kutlu · 12-25-2007, 10:42 PM

Thanks, I'll do it.