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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers banner command Post 85057 by Perderabo on Friday 30th of September 2005 02:43:07 PM
Old 09-30-2005
Maybe. Your screen would need to be able to display blinking characters. Not all screens can. Also your terminfo database would need to be set up with the codes needed to make stuff blink. On Linux, type "infocmp" to see your entry. You can try other settings of the TERM setting to see if you one that works. If stuff is right, then this command:
echo one $(typut blink)two$(tput sgr0) three
will display a line with "two" blinking (you need to be using bash or ksh). If that works, then you can try...

/usr/libexec/filters/lpbanner -LABC -l30 | sed "6,16{s/^/$(tput blink)/;s/$/$(tput sgr0)/p;}"
 

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ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. PARAMETERS
device The disk device. partition The partition number. start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8) AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux January 2015 ADDPART(8)
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