Is there a way to get echo to make newlines without using any type of quotes? I've done a lot of searches and went into my Linux book to no avail. I'm trying to write five separate lines to a file. I can get echo to accept all five lines like this
echo \
\this is line 1\
\this is line 2\ >... (6 Replies)
So in my shell i execute:
{ while true; do echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line This waits one second and returns.
But
{ while true; do /bin/echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line continues to run, and doesn't stop until i kill it explicitly.
I have tried this in bash as well as zsh,... (2 Replies)
Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...
i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...
echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file
... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to print a value in the same line , But when we use the echo instead the loops (while), the value goes to the next line..
Can you help me in this..
Thanks For your help in advance. (6 Replies)
echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But
echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo"
(too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
I came across and unexpected behavior with redirections in tcsh. I know, csh is not best for redirections, but I'd like to understand what is happening here.
I have following script (called out_to_streams.csh):
#!/bin/tcsh -f
echo Redirected to STDOUT > /dev/stdout
echo Redirected to... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm working with ksh.
I was working with the echo command
That is
echo "Today is $date"
which would show for example
Toady is 7/12/12
which was fine
however, know I only recieve the first part of the echo without the date.
Today is
Could I have edited the echo... (9 Replies)
Hi guys,
Been messing around with shell programming for a couple of days and I found something that was pretty odd in the behavior of the echo command. Below is an example-:
When I type the following in my /home directory from my lxterminal in Debian-:
echo "`ls -l`"
I get the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sreyan32
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
timer_getoverrun
timer_getoverrun(3) Library Functions Manual timer_getoverrun(3)NAME
timer_getoverrun - Obtains the overrun count for a specified timer
LIBRARY
Realtime Library (librt.so, librt.a)
SYNOPSIS
include <time.h>
int timer_getoverrun ( timer_t timerid );
PARAMETERS
timerid The timer for which to return the overrun count.
DESCRIPTION
The timer_getoverrun function returns the overrun count for a specified timer. The count contains the number of extra timer expirations
that occurred between the time the signal was queued and when it was delivered, up to but not including the implementation-defined maximum
DELAYTIMER_MAX.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the timer_getoverrun function returns the overrun count for the timer specified. If the timer overrun count is
equal to or greater than DELAYTIMER_MAX, the overrun count is set to DELAYTIMER_MAX. If the function fails, it returns -1 and sets errno
to indicate the type of error that occurred.
ERRORS
The timer_getoverrun function fails under the following condition:
[EINVAL] The specified clock ID is not defined.
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: clock_getres(3), clock_gettime(3), clock_settime(3), timer_delete(3), timer_gettime(3), timer_settime(3)
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timer_getoverrun(3)