NAME

leave − remind you when you have to leave

SYNOPSIS

leave [ hhmm ]

DESCRIPTION

Leave waits until the specified time, then reminds you to leave.  You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter.  When you log off, leave exits. 

The time of day is in the form hhmm, where hh is a time in hours (on a 12- or 24-hour clock).  All times are converted to a 12-hour clock and assumed to be in the next 12 hours. 

If no argument is given, leave prompts with "When do you have to leave?"  A reply of newline causes leave to exit; otherwise the reply is assumed to be a time.  This form is suitable for inclusion in a .login or .profile. 

Leave ignores interrupts, quits, and terminate signals.  To get rid of it you should either log off or use “kill −9” giving its process ID. 

EXAMPLES

The command

leave 1204

sends an alarm (a beep) to your terminal to remind you that you have to leave at 12:04 and reminds you that you are late at one minute intervals after 12:04. 

WARNINGS

Leave checks to see if a user has logged out by checking the /etc/utmp file every 100 seconds.  If a user logs out and logs back in to the same tty before leave makes its periodic check, leave might not know that the user has logged out. 

FILES

/etc/utmp

AUTHOR

Leave was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. 

SEE ALSO

calendar(1). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  May 11, 2021