Use 'leave' to set a reminder to get going!

Dec 16, '03 11:09:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I have no idea how useful this is to most, but to me, I found it at least noteworthy. I noticed in the terminal, at least in bash, that hitting Tab-Tab will let you see all the commands you have available to you. As I was scanning through them, a few caught my eye, namely leave.

Pulling up the man leave page told me the very simple usage. Simply type:

% leave +hhmm
which will set an alarm for that many hours and minutes from the current time. To use a fixed time, drop the + flag, and it will allow you to set the leave alarm to some time in the future. You are reminded at five and one minute intervals. Nice thing about it in OS X is it actually audibly beeps at you.

A nice augment to leave is calendar, which is a little more flexible, see the man calendar page for more details.

[robg adds: Speaking of which, it's time for me to leave! Have a great day, everyone!]

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