<p>Sleep for 2 hours and 45 minutes:</p>
<pre><code>sleep 2h 45m</code></pre>
<p>Poor man's Pomodoro timer:</p>
<pre><code>sleep 25m ; play bell.wav</code></pre>
<p>Better one with tic toc:</p>
<pre><code>(play tic.wav repeat 5000 trim 0 25:00 &amp;&amp; play bell.wav)</code></pre>
<p>Send a desktop notification from the command line:</p>
<pre><code>notify-send &quot;the message you want to show&quot;</code></pre>
<p>Pizza notifier:</p>
<pre><code>sleep 15m ; notify-send &quot;Pick up the pizza&quot;</code></pre>
<p>10 minute temperature probe display:</p>
<pre><code>while temperature-probe ; do sleep 10m ; done</code></pre>
<p>Download from websites in urls.txt with a 30-60 second delay:</p>
<pre><code>for url in $( cat urls.txt ) ; do wget &quot;$url&quot; ; sleep $(( RANDOM % 31 + 30 )) ; done</code></pre>
<p>Poor man's annoy-a-tron:</p>
<pre><code>while true; do play -qn synth sin 9k trim 0 0.75 vol .5 ; sleep $((RANDOM % 4 + 3))m ; done</code></pre>
<p>Other examples of using sleep from climagic:<br />
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href="https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aclimagic%20sleep&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live"
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