starter

POSIX shell script and function to schedule commands

(C) Martin Väth (martin at mvath.de).
This project is under the BSD license.

Warning

This project is practically no longer maintained.
Unless you have a special reason, use instead the successor project
https://github.com/vaeth/schedule

Description

This script can be used to schedule commands in a multitasking
and multiuser environment.

Commands started with this script will wait with the execution
until all commands started earlier with this script
(possibly by a different user) have been executed.

You can also have several of such command queues or add a command
to a queue even if you start it immediately.

Usage

To get help about the usage, call

starter -h

There is also a starter_trap function available for execution of
commands within your current shell. To obtain this function use either

eval `starter_trap`

or

. starter_trap

in your current shell or put the following into your shell startup files:

starter_trap() {
    if starter_trap=`starter_trap 2>/dev/null`
    then    eval "$starter_trap"
    else    echo "starter_trap not found" >&2
        return 1
    fi
    starter_trap ${1+"$@"}
}

Information about the starter_trap function can then be obtained with

starter_trap -h

Installation

For installation, copy the content of bin/ in your $PATH.
You also need push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push in your $PATH.
If you want that the hard status line is set, also the title script from
https://github.com/vaeth/runtitle (version 2.3 or newer) is required in your
$PATH.
To obtain support for zsh completion, you can copy the content of zsh/
to a directory of your zsh’s $fpath.

For Gentoo, there is an ebuild in the mv overlay (available over layman).