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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting blink / flash echo text in a menu Post 39394 by MizzGail on Saturday 16th of August 2003 12:08:22 PM
Old 08-16-2003
Question blink / flash echo text in a menu
I have a ksh script that is a login menu for my end users. I would like to have one line of the welcome message flash when there is a system notice about an impending outage.
The welcome message is a series of echo statements which prints a text file "msg of the day" with the status msg.
I tried repeating a sleep and clear command on the whole welcome message but it didnt work well and looked a bit dorky.
Any ideas?


clear
echo "**********************************************"
echo "* WELCOME "
echo "* User id : $USER"
if [ -f $MSG_OF_DAY -a -n "$1" ]; then
print_msgofday
fi
echo "*******************************************************************\n"
 

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dh_installmenu

DH_INSTALLMENU(1)						     Debhelper							 DH_INSTALLMENU(1)

NAME

       dh_installmenu - install Debian menu files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installmenu [debhelperoptions] [-n]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build
       directories.

       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands are
       inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).

FILES

       debian/package.menu
	   Debian menu files, installed into usr/share/menu/package in the package build directory. See menufile(5) for its format.

       debian/package.menu-method
	   Debian menu method files, installed into etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-scripts
	   Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7) update-menus(1) menufile(5)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2							    2018-05-10							 DH_INSTALLMENU(1)
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