Can anyone tell me how to ouput the current cursor coordinate? I have tried using tput sc and tput rc. However I want to know what the coordinate is.
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Cursor is blinking (slightly) while loading page in Firefox, or during scrolling a window.
I tried some variants of linux (gnome permanently) and of course my solaris.
May be an artifact of X-window? Cause in windows cursor is stable (i'm feeling more confident).
PS: It makes me nervous. (0 Replies)
Hi,
I'm writing scripts in perl and shell and want to add the oprion of
scrolling cursor on the screen when there is no output to the screen for long time. I saw it in some script but I don't have the source code.
Are anyone know how can I perform this ?
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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)
After some googling, I came across this script to create a spinning cursor:
#!/bin/bash
# paste following in your script
declare -a Spinner
Spinner=(/ - \\ \| / - \\ \| )
Spinnerpos=0
update_spinner()
{
printf "\b"${Spinner}
(( Spinnerpos=(Spinnerpos +1)%8 ))
}
# testing... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a table in which i have the following data
JOB_NO FILE_ID FILE_NAME
1546148 1378788 PDF Sample -1.pdf
1546148 1378789 PDF Sample -2.pdf
1546149 1378790 PDF Sample -3.pdf
Now I would like use a cursor like thing in unix to download the files using the file ids and send... (1 Reply)
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)
i have 2 cursors. i want to assign the value of first cursor(employee_id) to the where condition of cursor c2(please refer the bold statement).
how do i do if i want to assign the value of c1 to where condition of cursor c2?
declare
cursor c1 IS
select employee_id from employee
cursor c2... (1 Reply)
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)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
sleep
sleep(1) User Commands sleep(1)NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/sleep
/usr/bin/sleep time
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sleep time
DESCRIPTION
/usr/bin/sleep
sleep suspends execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by time.
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sleep suspends execution for at least the time in seconds specified by time or until a SIGALRM signal is received.
OPERANDS
/usr/bin/sleep
The following operands are supported for /usr/bin/sleep:
time time in seconds can be specified as a non-negative decimal integer number.
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The following operands are supported:
time Specify time in seconds as a floating point number. The actual granularity depends on the underlying system, normally around 1 mil-
lisecond.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Suspending Command Execution
The following example executes a command after a certain amount of time:
example% (sleep 105; command)&
Example 2 Executing a Command Every So Often
The following example executes a command every so often:
example% while true
do
command
sleep 37
done
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sleep: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received (see NOTES).
>0 An error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/sleep
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Standard |See standards(5). |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ksh93(1), wait(1), alarm(2), sleep(3C), wait(3UCB), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
If the sleep utility receives a SIGALRM signal, one of the following actions is taken:
o Terminate normally with a zero exit status.
o Effectively ignore the signal.
The sleep utility takes the standard action for all other signals.
SunOS 5.11 20 Nov 2007 sleep(1)