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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting scrolling cursor Post 302227007 by otheus on Wednesday 20th of August 2008 11:25:47 AM
Old 08-20-2008
There's simple and complex.

The simple method is to add a check for ever piece of code that might output data. But if you rely on a sub-process that might never return, this doesn't work too well.

The complex method is to set up a timer and trap the timer with something that outputs to the screen. The trap can check a variable before printing; that variable is reset every time there is output.

This demonstrates (in BASH) the basic concept:

Code:
wake_up() { 
echo "++ Waiting for more input ++" 
}

trap wake_up SIGALRM
( while true; do kill -SIGALRM $$; sleep 30; done ) &

date
sleep 90;
date
sleep 90;
date

 

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sleep

SLEEP(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  SLEEP(3)

NAME

       sleep - Sleep for the specified number of seconds

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);

DESCRIPTION

       sleep() makes the calling thread sleep until seconds seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored.

RETURN VALUE

       Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep, if the call was interrupted by a signal handler.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001.

BUGS

       sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm(2) and sleep() is a bad idea.

       Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results.

SEE ALSO

       alarm(2), nanosleep(2), signal(2), signal(7)

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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