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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Banner Countdown Timer Post 303038068 by Corona688 on Friday 23rd of August 2019 11:23:39 AM
Old 08-23-2019
What does "banner" mean when used as a verb here?

Code:
T=$((SECONDS+(2*60)))

while ((T > SECONDS))
do
        # \r returns to the beginning of the line and overwrites.
        printf "\r%02d:%02d" $(( (T-SECONDS)/60 )) $(( (T-SECONDS)%60 ))
        sleep 1
done
echo

 

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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)
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