#!/usr/bin/env bash function usage { echo "countdown - exit after a certain amount of time has passed" echo " Usage:" echo " countdown && command..." echo echo " Examples:" echo ' countdown 120 && echo "Two minutes has elapsed!"' } [[ $# -lt 1 ]] && { printf "error: no SECONDS argument provided\n" >&2; usage; exit 1; } d=$(($(date +%s) + $1)); printf 'Started at %s\n' "$(date)" while [[ "$d" -ge "$(date +%s)" ]]; do _dt=$((d - $(date +%s))) days=$((_dt / 86400)) printf "\r%sd %s " "$days" "$(date -u --date @$((_dt)) +%H:%M:%S)"; sleep 0.1 done printf "\rCountdown finished %s\n" "$(date)"