Sleep until a specific time/date

Question

I want my bash script to sleep until a specific time. So, I want a command like \"sleep\" which takes no interval but an end time and sleeps until then.

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Answer 1

I actually wrote https://tamentis.com/projects/sleepuntil/ for this exact purpose. It's a bit over-kill most of the code comes from BSD 'at' so it's fairly standard-compliant:

$ sleepuntil noon && sendmail something