1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Is there a way to get the current cursor position? I know "tput sc" saves it. Is there a way to find out the value saved? Thanks. (0 Replies)

2. Programming

Hello all, How can i get the global position of the cursor? (i'm using c language, and suse 10.1 linux) Thanks. (3 Replies)

3. HP-UX

Dear all, How can i get the current cursor position..is thr any command to find the same? Thanks in Advance Aneesh (3 Replies)

4. Programming

I want to get the screen width and cursor positions. When I used curses, all the screen content was cleared. So Can I use curses to get the screen size without clearing anything in the window? Or is there any other alternative??? I can use only C or C++. (0 Replies)

5. UNIX and Linux Applications

Hi to all! I'm a teacher of maths and physics in an italian high school in Milan, Italy. I need a simple program that read the position of mouse cursor in function of time and write the coordinates in a text file. The time resolution have to be something like 1/10 sec or better (I have to know... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, In VI editor, to know the line number at any instant we use ctrl+g Similarly, to know the current coulmn number what shall we use?? If not direct key controls like ctrl+g, Is there any comands that could be executed in colon or ex mode of VI to know the current column position???... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there a way of finding the current cursor position (line & column) within AIX (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, am trying to modify a ksh script to group server names together depending on the cluster they sit in. currently the script does a find . -name '*.pid' to find all running servers and prints out their pids and names. current output looks something like this : serverA ... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to get the cursor position, and put it inside a variable. Problem is, i don't have the tput command, or ncurses. Apparently I was supposed to try the following: echo -e '\E But I don't get a value or anything. Please help. (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there. It's easier to explain this with a pseudo code, I hope this makes sense: var1=hello echo $var1 some kind of loop echo loop counter done How do I hold the cursor position immediately behind the last output so I'd get something like: hello123456789 DOS used to use ","... (5 Replies)