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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello everyone!
I'm developing a MacOs Application in python and I'm having some issues trying to find information related to the power button pressed event. I know that in Ubuntu 14.04 you can find information about it on the acpi folders, but I realized that here in Mac that process is... (0 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have been trying to do a small fun project for myself.
I want to run a command for 45 seconds.
And to get the final output of this command, the script requires I push the "q" key on my keyboard and then the final output file becomes available.
I tried the following script. But it... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to detect key pressed in my .cgi web page, but it does not work even I found the code in other web site.
My code is :
#!/bin/sh
#=================================================
# PATH defination
# ================================================... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shuinvy
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi to all.
im a newbie in unix shell scripts. i want to make a simple unix shell script using the bash shell that asks a user to press any key after a series of commands, or an x if he wishes to exit. here's a sample script that i made:
#!/usr/bin/bash
pause(){
/usr/bin/echo "\t\t Press... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: booghaw
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all!
I have written a shell script which will invoke perl script infinitly in the background in a loop. Code will do as:Within while loop, perl script will be run in background, get the pid and notify pid in though mail. then wait for pid to be completed before going for next iteration. I am... (1 Reply)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
Sorry, for my not so perfect english!
I want to stop bash shell script execution until any key is pressed.
This line in a bash shell script
read -n1 -r -p "Press any key to continue..." key
produces this error
When I run this from the command line
usera@lynx:~$ read... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: linuxinho
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7. Programming
hi
This is mahesh
please can any one post source of 'c'. to capture key board events.
thank u (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: smahesh2007
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I trap a character press in the shell script.
For eg:- I have a script runinng a infinite loops , I will need to quit if q is pressed.
I have seen the traping the signal , but they give option only for traping the defined interrupt signals. But those does not help me here. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: praveenbvarrier
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
sorry for the title of this thread-
I figured out how to capture empty variable by using-
if
then
........
This thread originally had two parts in it (one for capturing empty variable and the other to get the date time in 14 char format). Once I figured out the solution for the first part... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: radhika
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would really like to have a script that will accept the key press from the user with out having to press the enter key afterwards.
i.e.
echo "Press Y to print \c"
read YesNo
At this point the user has to press the enter key to continue. Is there a way to accept the key press from the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jagannatha
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