#!/bin/sh help=""" usage: timer [option] [args] options: -c SECONDS Count down from given amount of seconds -s Start stopwatch -h Display this message """ countdown() { start="$(( $(date '+%s') + $1))" while [ $start -ge $(date +%s) ]; do time="$(( $start - $(date +%s) ))" printf '%s\r' "$(date -u -d "@$time" +%H:%M:%S)" sleep 0.1 done } stopwatch() { start=$(date +%s) while true; do time="$(( $(date +%s) - $start))" printf '%s\r' "$(date -u -d "@$time" +%H:%M:%S)" sleep 0.1 done } while getopts "c:sh" arg; do case $arg in c) countdown $OPTARG;; s) stopwatch;; h) echo "$help";; esac done