Please don't PM me in the hope of a faster response. I am not on-call here.
On my system I get:
It does print 'myshell' again. And then 'echo' stomps on it and moves to the next line. This is normal. Since we're not waiting for it, the background process can't be polite about when it prints what... Also watch where you're cout-ing BG, if the process is backgrounded it kind of just shoves it in there anyway.
In a real shell try
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Hi,
I am a newbie learing Unix , I have started with teh book "the Design of the Unix OS" by Bach.After which I plan to read "UNIX Network Programming" by Richard Stevens.
What is the background that one needs to learn unix. I know C. But I am not sure about my Operating Systems... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm new to this forums and to Unix OS...
Is this the right place to put this thread?
I just need to ask how to set the wallpaper that goes through the x-term windows in a Unix system? It's as if the x-term windows is transparent...
I tried modifying the .login file and things got... (5 Replies)
I have a friend at work that asked me a question today and I figured I would seek help here. How does a shell script know whether it is running in the background or not?
Thanks in advance for help (5 Replies)
I have script 3 scripts
1 parent
2 children
child1
child2
In the code below the 2 child processes fire almost Instantaneously in the background, Is that possible to know the status of pass/fail of each process "as it happens" ?
In the present scenario although Child2... (5 Replies)
I have script 3 scripts 1 parent (p1) and 2 children child1 and child2
I have script 3 scripts
1 parent
2 children
child1
child2
In the code below the 2 child processes fire almost Instantaneously in
the background, Is that possible to know the status of pass/fail of each
process... (12 Replies)
NOTE: I am using BASH and Solaris 10 for this.
Currently in the process of building a script that has a main "watcher" daemon that reads a configuration file and starts background processes based on it's global configuration. It is basically an infinite loop of configuration reading. Some of the... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I extracted a list of files in a directory with the command ls . However this is not my computer, so the ls functionality has been revamped so that it gives the filesizes in front like this :
This is the output of ls command : I stored the output in a file filelist
1.1M... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am using ksh , i have requirement to run 4 functions in background , 4 functions call are available in a case that case is also in function, i need to execute 1st function it should run in background and return to case and next i will call 2nd function it should run in background and... (8 Replies)
we are getting files on daily basis.we need to process these files.
i need a unix shell script where we can count
1-The no of files processed
2-No of data/record processed for each files.
The script should log these details into a database table. If there is any error while file... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Atul kumar
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
noecho
echo(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions echo(3XCURSES)NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int echo(void);
int noecho(void);
DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft-
ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)