gosleep is a go replacement for the sleep command that allows you to put time-durations into your sleep commands.

The main goal is to be able to use this as a somewhat backwards-compatible drop-in for sleep, via alias sleep=gosleep, while adding some usability features. The main system sleep would still be able to be used with \sleep if aliased.

• gosleep 1 - sleeps for 1 second
• gosleep 1m - sleeps for 1 minute
• gosleep 1h30m - sleeps for 1 hour and 30 minutes

Benchmark data is from my M1 Macbook Pro.

> time sleep 10
sleep 10  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 10.014 total

> time bin/gosleep 10
bin/gosleep 10  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 10.008 total

> time sleep $((2 * 60))
sleep $((2 * 60))  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2:00.01 total

> time bin/gosleep 2m
bin/gosleep 2m  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2:00.01 total

• add a spinner or some type of progress notification