Sloth

Sloth is a dead simple Chron cli tool for Node.

Install Sloth as a dependency:

npm install --save sloth-cli

Then pass Sloth the length of time it should wait until running your command, and what command to run:

sloth 5 "npm run my-script"

or set it up in your package.json like:

"start": "sloth .1 \"npm run my-script\""

That's it! By default you pass a number of minutes. You can pass a decimal number.

By default the slothed script will only run after the specified length of time. If you want it to also run once immediately, pass true like this:

"start": "sloth .1 \"npm run my-script\" true"

You can also have Sloth log the last iteration time by passing true as a fifth argument:

"start": "sloth .1 \"npm run my-script\" false true"

Terminate the loop by pressing ctrl + c. You may have to press that twice. It's not graceful.

Contributing

PRs are welcome, and you can always file an issue for features requests, as well as, uh, an issue.

TODO

1. For timing, support ms, s, m, h, or a chron string
2. Add command line options for these things:
   1. Run X number of times.
   2. Run until X length of time (supported as above: ms, s, m, h, or a chron string)
3. Gracefully end process two ways:
   1. ctrl + shift + t to immediately send a graceful termination signal.
   2. spacebar to invoke a prompt which can be confirmed by pressing y to send a graceful termination signal.