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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to execute a while loop for 20 minutes? Post 302125290 by ennstate on Thursday 5th of July 2007 01:18:40 AM
Old 07-05-2007
Is this a right approach?

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
SECONDS=0
while [[ SECONDS -lt 1200 ]] ; do
 echo $SECONDS
done

Thanks
nagarajan G
 

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GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)													       GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)

NAME
gnome-screenshot - capture the screen, a window, or an user-defined area and save the snapshot image to a file. SYNOPSIS
gnome-screenshot [ -w ] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -B ] [ -d SECONDS ] [ -e EFFECT ] [ -i ] [ --display DISPLAY ] DESCRIPTION
gnome-screenshot is a GNOME utility for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or an user-defined area of the screen, with optional beautifying border effects. OPTIONS
-w, --window Grab the current active window instead of the entire screen. -a, --area Grab an area of the screen instead of the entire screen. -b, --include-border Include the window border within the screenshot. -B, --remove-border Remove the window border from the screenshot. -d, --delay=SECONDS, Take the screenshot after the specified delay [in seconds]. -e, --effect=EFFECT, Add an effect to the outside of the screenshot border. EFFECT can be ``shadow'' (adding drop shadow), ``border'' (adding rectangu- lar space around the screenshot) or ``none'' (no effect). Default is ``none''. -i, --interactive Interactively set options in a dialog. --display=DISPLAY X display to use. -?, -h, --help Show a summary of the available options. In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details. SEE ALSO
gnome-options(7), gtk-options(7) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Updated by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep@linux.thai.net>, Tom Feiner <feiner.tom@gmail.com> and Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org> June 28, 2009 GNOME-SCREENSHOT(1)
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