> Around 100 LOC Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?

lgas · on Oct 4, 2016

To be fair it does slightly more than that (relative times, absolute times, etc) but it is somewhat ironic considering that it advertises itself as an alternative to one liners like "sleep 4231; beep".

tingol · on Oct 4, 2016

You can do sleep 15m; beep

duaneb · on Oct 4, 2016

One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.

tingol · on Oct 4, 2016

Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.

michaelcampbell · on Oct 4, 2016

Yes, anything can be done in a different way.

swiley · on Oct 4, 2016

X11 bell almost never works for me.

zokier · on Oct 4, 2016

GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...

glandium · on Oct 4, 2016

GNU programs are not a reference. They must have usage(), and handle --help and --version. Even /bin/true.

  coreutils-8.25$ wc -l src/true.c
  80 src/true.c

liviu- · on Oct 4, 2016

Ding has `--version`, and a help message too :P

To be honest, a big chunk of it is just handling user input and attempting to provide useful error messages.