Feature Request: Queue Tasks Without Immediate Execution

[stephane-archer]

Dear Task Spooler Development Team,

I hope this message finds you well. I would like to kindly suggest a new feature for Task Spooler (TS) that would allow users to queue tasks without starting them immediately. The idea is to provide users with the flexibility to manually trigger the execution of queued tasks at a later time.

In my particular use case, I often want to run certain commands after work hours, when I’m not actively using the computer. Throughout the day, I would like to be able to queue these tasks as they come to mind, and at the end of the day, simply run a single command to begin processing the entire task queue.

I believe this feature would be very useful for users who need more control over when their queued tasks are executed.

Thank you very much for considering this request, and I appreciate all the work you do to maintain and improve Task Spooler.

Best regards,

[ChristianS99]

what about putting a 'sleep x' command in the queue first?

[stephane-archer]

So I need to watch how many our before I clock out of work?
Not ideal but this can be a temporary solution

[ChristianS99]

define this function in your .bashrc or similar
function remaining_secs() { end=$(date -d"$(systemd-analyze calendar "$1" | grep "Next elapse:" | cut -d":" -f2)" +%s); echo $(($end - $(date +%s) )); }
and use
ts sleep $(remaining_secs 18:00)