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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers command line args Post 302182474 by skooly5 on Sunday 6th of April 2008 05:42:29 PM
Old 04-06-2008
command line args

I am trying to print command line arguments one per second. I have this

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do

echo "6"
shift
echo "5"
shift
echo "4"
shift
echo "3"
shift
echo "2"
shift
echo "1"
shift

done

but when i run it like this it just prints them all at once:
6
5
4
3
2
1

and I want a 1 second pause between numbers.

Anyone?
 

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The following command line options are available. -n, --newline By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is omitted. -e, --expand If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the following constructs are recognized: %B switch terminal mode to bold display mode. %b switch terminal mode back to normal display mode. %u the current user name. %U the current user id (numerical). %g the current group name. %G the current group id (numerical). %h the current hostname (without any domain extension). %d the current domain name. %D the current day of the month. %M the current month (numerical). %m the current month name. %Y the current year. EXAMPLE
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