NAME¶
leave —
remind you when you have to
leave
SYNOPSIS¶
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
OPTIONS¶
- hhmm
- The time of day is in the form hhmm
where hh is a time in hours (on a 12 or 24 hour
clock), and mm are minutes.
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.
- +
- If the time is preceded by
‘
+
’, 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.
SEE ALSO¶
calendar(1),
csh(1),
sh(1)
HISTORY¶
The
leave command appeared in
3.0BSD.
BUGS¶
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.