countdown

A simple CLI utility to sleep for a duration whilst providing a visible countdown timer.

Help Message

usage: countdown.py [-h] [--unit {h,m,s}] [--refresh INTERVAL] TIME

a simple countdown timer

positional arguments:
  TIME                duration to count down (by default in seconds)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --unit {h,m,s}      specifies if TIME is in hours(h), minutes(m), or
                      seconds(s)
  --refresh INTERVAL  how often to refresh the timer (in seconds)

Examples

• countdown.py --unit h 4 counts down 4 hours
• countdown.py 60 counts down for 60 seconds
• countdown.py --refresh 30 --unit m 10 counts 10 minutes, updating the display in 30 second intervals. NOTE: the last 30 seconds will count down at normal speed.