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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to implement stopwatch in bash? Post 302147557 by jonwiz on Tuesday 27th of November 2007 02:07:08 PM
Old 11-27-2007
bash stopwatch

I found a simple stopwatch script, and then modified it to display the time on one line. (before it was echoing the time every loop in the terminal - a waste of space)

Enjoy!

Code:
#!/bin/bash

BEGIN=$(date +%s)
BACK="\b\b\b\b"


echo Starting Stopwatch...

while true; do
        NOW=$(date +%s)
        let DIFF=$(($NOW - $BEGIN))
        let MINS=$(($DIFF / 60))
        let SECS=$(($DIFF % 60))

#only echo count if its different than the last time
if [ "$DIFF" != "$OLDDIFF" ]
then
        #backspace 4 times to reset stopwatch position
        #The '-e' enables \b to be interpreted correctly
        #The '-n' avoids the newline character at the end
        echo -ne $BACK
        echo -ne $MINS:`printf %02d $SECS`
fi

#define olddiff to current diff
let OLDDIFF=DIFF

done

 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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