This is a Python script which waits until a given time, and then exits cleanly. I use it to delay execution of other programs using &&.
The easy way:
- Download a binary built with pyinstaller from the releases page
- Put it in a folder on your
$PATH
The hard way:
- Clone the repository
- Create a new virtual environment with
pew new -a `pwd` . - Install poetry with
pip install poetry - Install the dependencies with
poetry install --without dev - Run the script with
py waituntil.py
waituntil can wait until a specific date or for a specific amount of time.
To wait until a specific date / time, invoke waituntil and provide the date in ISO8601 format:
waituntil "2024-06-17 16:00:00"
If you only want to wait until a certain time on the same day, you can pass --today and waituntil will auto-insert today's date into the ISO8601 string.
waituntil --today 16:00:00
If you want to wait a certain amount of time rather than until a certain date, add the --waitfor flag.
waituntil --waitfor 5:00