Wakeful

Prevent automatic sleep and gracefully handle manual sleep by sending SIGINT to child processes.

Inspired by caffeinate, Wakeful prevents data corruption in long-running processes like bitcoin-node-docker by ensuring graceful shutdown before sleep.

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Installation

Build and install Wakeful manually

$ git clone https://github.com/sunknudsen/wakeful.git

$ cd wakeful

$ swift build --configuration release

$ sudo cp .build/release/wakeful /usr/local/bin

Build and install Wakeful using Homebrew

$ brew install sunknudsen/tap/wakeful

Usage

$ wakeful --help
Usage: wakeful [options] <command> [arguments...]

Options:
  -d, --display                 Prevent computer and display from sleeping
  -g, --grace-period <seconds>  Grace period for child process termination (default: 60)
  -h, --help                    Show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose                 Make operation more talkative
  -V, --version                 Show version number and exit

Example: wakeful watch ls -la

Distribution

Build and notarize Wakeful

Prerequisites:

• Create “App Manager” API key on App Store Connect
• Run xcrun notarytool store-credentials wakeful-notarytool
• Run cp .env.sample .env and add your “Developer ID Application” signing identity

$ source .env

$ swift build --configuration release

$ codesign --options runtime --sign "$CODESIGN_IDENTITY" --timestamp .build/release/wakeful

$ ditto -c -k --keepParent .build/release/wakeful wakeful.zip

$ xcrun notarytool submit wakeful.zip --keychain-profile "wakeful-notarytool" --wait

$ rm wakeful.zip