No, but if you use date or something like it, to calculate the number of seconds between now and then, and do a sleep for that, you might could pull it off. You could do all of that with a pipe, something like this: sleep `date flags` Where "flags", is the flags necessary to get date to do this, for your particular OS. I think it can. On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Looks like it isn't possible to use sleep to do this. According to the > manpage, it can only be used to sleep for a specified amount of time, > which it says can be seconds, minutes, hours or days. > > Lorenzo > > All extremists should be taken out and shot. > > Mike Keithley staggered into view and mumbled: > > > Is it possible to tell sleep to "sleep" until a time like 20:00:00 (8 pm). > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
