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Countdown - a bash countdown timer

I was looking for a tea timer countdown but quickly realised I might as well use a countdown script for this. I based my script on the linked script but added a customizable notification at the end

$ nano ~/bin/countdown
#!/bin/bash
# v2 - 2019-05-01
secs=$1
msg=${2:-$1 seconds passed.}
while [ $secs -gt 0 ]; do
echo -ne "$secs\033[0K\r"
sleep 1
: $((secs--))
done
notify-send 'Countdown Finished' "$msg"

$ chmod +x ~/bin/countdown
$ countdown 180 "Tea is ready."