NAME

leave − remind you when you have to leave

SYNOPSIS

leave [ [+] hhmm ]

DESCRIPTION

Leave is an online alarm clock that reminds you to leave at the specified time.  When the time arrives for the alarm to go off, Leave prints messages on your screen warning you not to be late.  The messages appear 5 minutes before the alarm time, 1 minute before the alarm time, at the alarm time, and each minute thereafter.  When you log off, leave exits just before it would have printed the next message. 

You specify the time of day in the form hhmm, where hh is hours (on a 12 or 24 hour clock) and mm is minutes.  Leave converts all times to a 12 hour clock and assumes that the specified time is in the next 12 hours. 

If the time is preceeded by ‘+’, the alarm will go off in hours and minutes from the current time. 

If no argument is given, leave prompts with "When do you have to leave?". A reply of newline causes leave to exit; otherwise, leave interprets the reply as a time.  You can include this form of leave in your .login or .profile. 

Leave ignores interrupts, quits, and terminates.  To deactivate leave, log out or use kill −9, giving its process id. 

SEE ALSO

calendar(1)

3rd Berkeley Distribution  —  May 7, 1986