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Hi, I have one small question - what is the best way to run one perl script from another?

Thanks in advance.

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I don't know if it's the right place to ask, but I will try. I want to use Gtk2 in my Perl chart-drawing script, I found a sample code that could be very useful for me somewhere,...

Is it possible to make Linux terminal cursor invisible in bash script?

It seems that it doesn't work the way I need. Let's say I want to read one character at time from the stdin (including spaces) in silent mode, and then print this character after some modifications,...

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If I want to extract a character from a specific position of a string, I can use ${string:1:1} (if I want character at the position 1). How can I do the same thing, when the number of position...

Thank you, but I don't have much time for learning how the screen works, so I would be glad to find some other way. Here is a test srcipt that I came up with so far:

#!/bin/bash

function...

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,...

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I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one...

Thanks a lot, the ANSI escape sequences list was exactly what I needed, I didn't know about that until now.

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I have one strange question - let's say I have a long, multiple-line string displayed on the terminal using echo, and I would like to make a carriage return to the beginning of this string,...

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I need to write a bash script for my university classes, and I came up with an idea of a program that would test the speed of typing - there is some random text that you have to rewrite,...