LEAVE(1) | General Commands Manual | LEAVE(1) |
leave
— remind you
when you have to leave
leave |
[[+ ]hhmm] |
leave
waits until the specified time
(within the next 12 hours), then reminds you that you have to leave by
writing to the TTY that you executed leave
on.
You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at
the time, and every minute thereafter. When you log off,
leave
exits just before it would have printed the
next message.
However, all times are converted to a 12 hour clock, and assumed to be in the next 12 hours. An attempt to set an alarm for farther into the future will be truncated to within the next 12 hours.
+
+
’, the
alarm will go off in hours and minutes from the current time.If no argument is given, leave
prompts
with "When do you have to leave?" A reply of newline causes
leave
to exit, otherwise the reply is assumed to be
a time. This form is suitable for inclusion in a
~/.login or ~/.profile.
The leave
command appeared in
3.0BSD.
In the modern age with X(1) and window
multiplexing programs like window(1) and
screen(1), the leave
command's
reminders and admonitions might not be seen if the user has the window where
leave
was started minimized or obscured.
This all begs for a more general user notifications system to be implemented.
January 19, 2002 | Debian |