After some googling, I came across this script to create a spinning cursor:
I'd like to be able to make use of a spinning cursor in one of my scripts while the script does it's work (ssh to another server, maybe unzip and copy some files, etc.)
Any idea how to do this? I'll probably be using ksh instead of bash, but I think think that will make that big of a difference.
If anyone know of a way to make a faster spinning cursor, I'd like that as well.
I believe i have most of samba configured right but i get this error each time time try to run it. I was given suggestion that i touch the file, i did, but i still cannot rid myself of this error.
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I have successfully installed RedHat 8.0 onto a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 today. This server has two SATA hard drives, and an IDE DVD-ROM drive.
Using the following kernel parameters, i successfully installed across both hard drives from CD:
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 vga=791 resolution=1024x768 expert... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a script, very basic, that checks the the intergrity of tar files. Of course, with a huge amount of files, this might take a while. So I'd like to have the script display the spinning cursor while this happens. I'm just not sure how to go about scripting this under ksh. Can... (6 Replies)
I was wondering, If it is at all possible to spin my own custom opensolrais boot disc?
The reason i ask is becausrwe i am running Open Solaris on a AMD 64 bit based system and neet flash and MPeg support right out of the box.
A prompt answer Is much appreciated. (1 Reply)
How To Generate different different progress bar in shell script?
like we install some software it show us progress, like we install RPM that also show us progress.
Thanks,
Bash (2 Replies)
I am trying to get sed, tr or awk to search a file that contains records with fields delimited by the vertical bar | and replace the occurrences in the records where the vertical bar is preceded by a space " |" with a vertical bar.
Sample data record
zelli |||59 Stonewall Dr ||W Barnstable |MA... (2 Replies)
We have a IBM P730 machine running AIX 7.1 in a properly air cooled server room. Just recently the fans on the unit kicked into overdrive, they are very loud and spinning at max.
Typically this happens when the server first boots then they normalize.
However for some odd reason, they sound... (2 Replies)
Dear Team
I am using DB2 v10 z/os database . Need expert guidance to figure out best way to track table activities ( Ex Delete, Insert,Update )
Scenario
We have a table which is critical and many developer/testing team access on daily basis . We had instance where some deleted... (1 Reply)
Hi, all,
I'm writing a BBS telnet client, and am trying to implement a status bar into it, at the bottom of the screen.
I am using NCurses to accomplish this. So far, it appears to be working, that is, upon connecting to BBS, it
will display the status bar, and then quickly disappear.
... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
sleep
SLEEP(1) BSD General Commands Manual SLEEP(1)NAME
sleep -- suspend execution for an interval of time
SYNOPSIS
sleep seconds
DESCRIPTION
The sleep command suspends execution for a minimum of seconds.
If the sleep command receives a signal, it takes the standard action.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The SIGALRM signal is not handled specially by this implementation.
The sleep command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds (with a '.' character as a decimal point). This is a non-
portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that a shell script will not execute properly on another system.
EXAMPLES
To schedule the execution of a command for x number seconds later (with csh(1)):
(sleep 1800; sh command_file >& errors)&
This incantation would wait a half hour before running the script command_file. (See the at(1) utility.)
To reiteratively run a command (with the csh(1)):
while (1)
if (! -r zzz.rawdata) then
sleep 300
else
foreach i (`ls *.rawdata`)
sleep 70
awk -f collapse_data $i >> results
end
break
endif
end
The scenario for a script such as this might be: a program currently running is taking longer than expected to process a series of files, and
it would be nice to have another program start processing the files created by the first program as soon as it is finished (when zzz.rawdata
is created). The script checks every five minutes for the file zzz.rawdata, when the file is found, then another portion processing is done
courteously by sleeping for 70 seconds in between each awk job.
DIAGNOSTICS
The sleep utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO nanosleep(2), sleep(3)STANDARDS
The sleep command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A sleep command appeared in Version 4 AT&T UNIX.
BSD April 18, 1994 BSD