Created attachment 880315 [details] emerge --info Hi, I needed to wait for 5min, so I run utimer: > lekto@lapek ~ $ utimer --countdown=5min > > ** (utimer:17110): ERROR **: 15:43:45.468: Error when trying to parse: in > Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) It took me longer than I want to admit to realize I should not use 5min, but 5m to set timer. I reporting this, because I think core dump shouldn't happened on invalid argument. Also, looks like project is dead, homepage from ebuild isn't exist and last commit on launchpad (https://code.launchpad.net/utimer) is from over 10 years ago.
Thank you for the report. This should be fixed upstream. So if there is a real need for such a tool, someone should fork it and maintain it. One has to keep in mind that a proper parser for utime will have 10x more code lines than the utime source. Hardly any distributions ship this package: https://repology.org/project/utimer/versions The bug seems to be not very critical to me and such a simple program could work for another decade. Which alternative tools do the same job?
Honestly, ping -c could be used instead of it, but utimer has better interface. I had some time and willingness to write Bash script as utimer replacement, I called it btimer from Bash timer.
Created attachment 880744 [details] btimer
Package removed.
