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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting writing a timer Post 52556 by jyotipg on Tuesday 22nd of June 2004 05:49:15 AM
Old 06-22-2004
writing a timer

Hi!,

My shell script takes a quite a long time to execute.. Nothing appears on the screen during this period.. User are left guessing... whats going on????????????

Any ideas on how to create a small timer script which print a word on screen say " wait.. Program running" after every 10 seconds till the the script has executed??

I have written a small function like:

timer()
{
while 1
do
if [ $PROG_STAT = 1 ]
then
echo ".." >$CUR_DEVICE
sleep 4
else
exit 1
fi
done
}

I am setting $PROG_STAT =0 at the end of the program.

I am calling the timer script to run in background before calling the main script.

but it doesnt seem to work properly..

Last edited by jyotipg; 06-22-2004 at 06:54 AM..
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.10 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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