Bash date/time arithmetic

bash date time sleep suspend
Deniz Dogan picture Deniz Dogan · Jun 9, 2009 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I have a little Bash script which suspends the computer after a given number of minutes. However, I'd like to extend it to tell me what the time will be when it will be suspended, so I can get a rough idea of how long time I have left so to speak.

#!/bin/sh
let SECS=$1*60
echo "Sleeping for" $1 "minutes, which is" $SECS "seconds."
sleep $SECS &&
pm-suspend

The only argument to the script will be how many minutes from now the computer should be suspended. All I want to add to this script is basically an echo saying e.g. "Sleeping until HH:nn:ss!". Any ideas?

Answer

Deniz Dogan picture Deniz Dogan · Jun 9, 2009

Found out how.

echo "The computer will be suspended at" $(date --date "now $1 minutes")

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