NAME
leave
- remind you when you have to leave
SYNOPSIS
leave
[[+] hhmm]
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(7)
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.