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Operating Systems AIX aixterm scroll? Post 302242328 by nullwhat on Wednesday 1st of October 2008 04:24:20 PM
Old 10-01-2008
# you might find this fun
# does random color xterms

# want aixterm because i have code for /ksh shell that lets me control multi colored text, i.e. i have have diff file types have diff colors on aixterm /tty



if [[ $# = 0 || $1 = "-rand" || $1 = "-r" ]]
then
perl -e '

$fg=rand 2**24;
do { $bg = rand
2**24 }

while (unpack("%32b*", pack "N",($bg^$fg)&0xe0e0e0) < 8);

($fg, $bg) = map { sprintf "#%06x", $_ } $fg, $bg;

exec("xterm", , "-fn", "-fg", $fg, "-bg", $bg);

' fi &


fi
 

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