timerl

This is a command-line timer and alarm program for GNU/Linux desktops.

Examples:

# 3 minutes when tea is ready
timerl -m 'Tea is ready' 3m

# Shutdown in 1.5 hours
sudo timerl -c 'poweroff' 1.5h

# At 3pm
timerl 3pm
timerl 15:00

It is not a stopwatch. You can use time read or an online service instead.

You could create an alias for timerl, e.g. alias tl=timerl

Oh, and the last letter of timerl is an l (as Lima), not the number one.

Dependencies

• A system notification service must be installed (comes with most modern desktop environments like Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu). An example for a light-weight notification service is dunst.
• notify-send must be installed to interact with the notification service.
• When using timerl with fixed times (as in the third example), the atd service must be installed to allow scheduled tasks using at.