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    Maybe the daftest of all gists. Indeed for timing anything timeout n or sleep n are what you should absolutely use in bash. But I thought the visual was cool for this one.
timer () {
t=${1:-60}
python -c '
import time
import sys
t = int(sys.argv[1])
for i in range(t):
    print(f"\r {t-i}", end="")
    time.sleep(1)
' ${t}
}
> timer # defaults to 60 seconds
> timer 120