Keep your Mac awake, with style. A small wrapper around /usr/bin/caffeinate that adds a friendly prompt animation and a few ergonomic flags. Anything that works with caffeinate works here.
brew install genericJE/tools/coffeinate
Or grab the script directly:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genericJE/coffeinate/main/coffeinate -o /usr/local/bin/coffeinate
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/coffeinate
coffeinate [options] [command ...]
| Flag | Effect |
|---|---|
-d |
Prevent display sleep (default) |
-i |
Prevent idle sleep |
-m |
Prevent disk idle sleep |
-s |
Prevent sleep (AC power only) |
-u |
Declare user active |
-t <mins> |
Timeout in minutes |
-T <HH:MM> |
Shut down at given time |
-w <pid> |
Wait for a process to exit |
-q |
Silent mode (no animation, no output) |
-h |
Show help |
Press Ctrl-C to stop.
MIT.
If anything here ends up being useful to you and you feel like saying thanks, my PayPal is https://paypal.me/genericJE. Truly no expectation either way, just leaving the option here in case.