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@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ Over uschedule: * `-R`: add between 0 and RANDDELAY seconds to the scheduled time. * `-s`: commands are executed even if they are SLACK (default: 60) seconds late. +The durations RANDDELAY and SLACK and TIMEWAIT are parsed as seconds, +unless a postfix of `m` for minutes, `h` for hours, or `d` for days is used. + The remaining arguments are patterns for the time fields: * `-d`: day of month @@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ of TIMEFILE plus TIMEWAIT seconds. When `-T` is *not* passed, snooze will start finding the first matching time starting from the mtime of TIMEFILE, and taking SLACK into account. -(E.g. `-H0 -s$((24*60*60)) -t timefile` will start an instant +(E.g. `-H0 -s 1d -t timefile` will start an instant execution when timefile has not been touched today, whereas without `-t` this would always wait until next midnight.) @@ -136,15 +139,15 @@ Run a job like cron, every day at 7am and 7pm: Run a job daily, never twice a day: - exec snooze -H0 -s $((24*60*60)) -t timefile \ + exec snooze -H0 -s 1d -t timefile \ sh -c 'run-parts /etc/cron.daily; touch timefile' Use snooze inline, run a mirror script every hour at 30 minutes past, but ensure there are at least 20 minutes in between. set -e - snooze -H'*' -M30 -t timefile -T $((20*60)) - touch timefile # remove this if instantly retrying on failure is ok + snooze -H'*' -M30 -t timefile -T 20m + touch timefile # remove this if instantly retrying on failure were ok mirrorallthethings touch timefile |