I am taking a class in UNIX and have written a script that needs to countdown from a number that is read in from the keyboard to zero. If no number is given the start of the countdown should default to 10.
I can't get this to do the default
#! /bin/sh
echo Enter a number here to countdown... (2 Replies)
Hi guys, I've found two nifty little scripts on these forums one which detects if the F5 key has been pressed:
#/bin/sh
_key()
{
local kp
ESC=$'\e'
_KEY=
read -d '' -sn1 _KEY
case $_KEY in
"$ESC")
while read -d '' -sn1 -t1 kp
do
_KEY=$_KEY$kp
... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
Does anyone know of any FUN countdown script that I can use for my script? At the moment, am just using sleep 10 or more and then print stuff into the screen to allow more time for the user to decide whether they want to continue running the script or abort?
Just thought of wanting... (3 Replies)
Hello, I have another problem with my script - I would like to have a countdown timer visible on the screen, and at the same time, I want te be able to do something else. And when the time runs out, I need to know about that inside the script somehow and do some action. I guess that would require 2... (3 Replies)
In the below bash when the perl is it possible to hide the commands from running on screen and display a process countdown?
For example, on the cygwin screen now the user sees each process in the command running as running protocol refGene, running protocol popfreq_all, etc... Could a... (0 Replies)
I would like this to work with seconds as well.
#!/bin/bash
#
if ; then
echo "Incorrect usage ! Example:"
echo './CountDown.sh -d "Jun 10 2011 16:06"'
echo 'or'
echo './CountDown.sh -m 90'
exit 1
fi
now=`date +%s`
if ; then
until=`date -d... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: drew77
7 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
syncache-drb
SYNCACHE-DRB(1) General Commands Manual SYNCACHE-DRB(1)NAME
syncache-drb - SynCache dRuby object cache server
SYNOPSIS
syncache-drb [ options ] [ URI ]
DESCRIPTION
syncache-drb starts a Distributed Ruby server providing a SynCache::Cache object.
SynCache::Cache is a thread-safe time-limited object cache with flexible replacement strategy.
OPTIONS
URI A URI with druby: schema that the DRb server binds to, default is druby://localhost:9000
--help
Display usage information and quit.
--ttl SECONDS
Time-to-live value for cache entries, default is 24 hours.
--size ENTRIES
Maximum number of objects in cache, default is 10000.
--flush-delay SECONDS
Rate-limit flush operations. If less than that number of seconds has passed since last flush, next flush will be delayed. Default is no
rate limit.
--user USER
Run as USER if started as root. Default is nobody.
--error-log ERROR_LOG_PATH
File to write errors to. Default is /dev/null. When run as root, the file is chowned to USER:adm.
--debug
Enable debug mode. If an error log is specified with --error-log, all messages will be sent there instead of syslog.
--pidfile PATH
Path to pidfile. By default, pidfile is created under /var/run/syncache-drb/ when run as root, or under $TMPDIR otherwise. Location
should be writeable by USER.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dmitry Borodaenko <angdraug@debian.org>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this doc-
ument under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 or later.
SYNCACHE-DRB(1)