cocainate

README

cocainate

Why This Name?

The program's functionality and name are inspired by macOS's caffeinate utility that prevents the system from entering sleep mode.

This name is simply a stupid pun, therefore I do not condone and do not promote drug use, for more information: Wikipedia.

Installation (working progress)

Arch Linux Distributions

• yay:

yay -S cocainate-bin

• paru:

paru -S cocainate-bin

macOS

• Homebrew Tap:

brew tap AppleGamer22/cocainate
brew install cocainate

Windows (working progress)

• winget:

winget install AppleGamer22.cocainate

Other

• go:

go install github.com/AppleGamer22/cocainate

Functionality

Global -d/--duration Flag

This is an optional flag that accepts a duration string (see Go's time.ParseDuration for more details). If this flag is not provided, the program will run until manually stopped.

Acceptable Time Units

• nanoseconds: ns
• microseconds: us (or µs)
• milliseconds: ms
• seconds: s
• minutes: m
• hours: h

Examples

• 10 hours: -d 10h
• 1 hour, 10 minutes and 10 seconds: -d 1h10m10s
• 1 microsecond: -d 1us

version Sub-command

-v/--verbose Flag

• If this flag is provided, the following details are printed to the screen:
  1. semantic version number
  2. commit hash
  3. Go compiler version
  4. processor architecture & operating system
• Otherwise, only the semantic version number is printed.

Dependencies

Linux

• D-Bus
• One of the following desktop environments:
  • KDE 4 or later
  • GNOME 3.10 or later

macOS

• D-Bus (optional)

Windows