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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting what I m doing wrong? Post 302316987 by Franklin52 on Sunday 17th of May 2009 03:48:00 PM
Old 05-17-2009
The screen is cleared after the echo command. Try to add a sleep command after the echo command:

Code:
2) echo "hi \c"
   sleep 2
   ;;

 

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