Scylla and Charybdis runningfor - Tools

The tools are developed under Linux with ESR's paradigm release early, release often in mind.
So you can consider this beta software, or alpha, or pre-alpha, or even worse ;)

Have a look in the download directory for all downloads.
As always here, all you get is the source. No binaries here.

runningfor 0.0.0-20090527-180940

Return true until the given time periode is reached. (look into latest version, download latest version 0.0.0-20090527-180940, sig)

This is a shell helper program to run things for certain time. The first invocation creates an empty reference file in /tmp, all future invocations then check the file inode change time and if the time is reached the file is removed and false is returned.

Following command outputs dots for 15 seconds without delay:

while runningfor 15; do echo -n .; done

History:

License and Disclaimer All you can see here is free software according to the GNU GPL. Copyright (C)2000-2008 by Valentin Hilbig Note that the software comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind. You use the software at your own risk. Valentin Hilbig cannot be hold responsible for any unintended damage, lost data or malfunction of the software you can find here.