Batch script restart timer

[septimamus]

i've been searching for days now, can't find it anywhere. Im looking for a way to reboot the computer using a batch script but with a timer which is set by the user. so if the user wants to reboot the computer in 5 minutes, the script should do that.

(sorry for the poor english.)

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Do you mean five minutes from now, every five minutes, or five minutes after boot?

If you read the man page for shutdown, you'll see that you need to specify a time as part of the command.

Run 'shutdown 5' for five minutes from now.

 

[septimamus]

Do you mean five minutes from now, every five minutes, or five minutes after boot?

If you read the man page for shutdown, you'll see that you need to specify a time as part of the command.

Run 'shutdown 5' for five minutes from now.

The 5 minutes is just for example. It's really just what the user wants. So if the user want to reboot in 6 minutes he typs "6" and the command should pick that up and reboot in 6 minutes. or 8 or 20 or two hours. It's just really about the imput of the user.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Ah. I don't remember how to enter data into bash; I don't code for others much so tend to just use command line arguments.

A quick Google shows something along the lines of this: (UNTESTED!)

#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter time to wait (in minutes) before shutting down:"
read minutes
shutdown $minutes