topic Re: Scripting in Operating System - HP-UX

Scripting

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:00:58 GMT

I have a question that is not that important.
Sometimes when you run an HP script like Q4 for example. you see the dotted lines running accross the page until the procedure finishes.

like '................................................... processing completed.'

Does anyone know how this is scripted? I can echo a line of 'dots'. but I can not get them to proceed one after another. Like I said , not real important, its just bugging me because I can't figure out how to do it.

TIA,

B.

Re: Scripting

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:03:23 GMT

Or like the rotating slash. I always liked that. Anyone know how to do that?

Re: Scripting

John Poff — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:04:19 GMT

Hi,

Lots of scripts do it like this:

echo ".\c"

The \c tells 'echo' not to append a new-line character at the end of the line. Put that in a loop and you have your dots.

JP

Re: Scripting

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:16:06 GMT

Isn't Q$ perl based?

#!/opt/bin/perl

$| = 1;
@mark = qw{ / | \ - };
$i = 100;
while ($i--) {
print $mark[$i % 4], "\r";
for (1..0x5ffff) { 1 } # delay
}

Re: Scripting

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:26:02 GMT

Hi,

you could do something like

echo "^H|\c"; sleep 1; echo "^H/\c"; sleep 1 ; echo "^H-\c" and so on.

Put this in a extra script in a loop an run it in the background.

This should give you the rotating slash.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

Re: Scripting

John Palmer — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:39:49 GMT

Here's a shell script to do the rotating /...

#!/bin/sh

CHAR[0]="|"
CHAR[1]="/"
CHAR[2]="-"
CHAR[3]="\\"

let I=0
print -n " "

while true
do
let N=I%4
let I=I+1
print -n "\010${CHAR[N]}"
sleep 1
done

Regards,
John

Re: Scripting

Jean-Louis Phelix — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:42:35 GMT

Hi,

And here is a 'launcher' ...

A - sh script called rotate.sh :

#!/usr/bin/sh
while :
do
echo '\\'"\r\c"
sleep 1
echo "|\r\c"
sleep 1
echo "/\r\c"
sleep 1
echo "-\r\c"
sleep 1
done

B - sh script 'go.sh' :

#!/usr/bin/sh
trap 'kill $I ; exit $R' 0 1 2 3 15
rotate.sh &
I=$!
$*
R=$?

C - try it for example using :

go.sh du -ks /usr

Regards.

Re: Scripting

justin berkman — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:44:39 GMT

Re: Scripting

John Palmer — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:56:35 GMT

Nice one Jimmy!

You could have at least have taken the trouble to change some of the variable names.

Re: Scripting

John Poff — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:34:03 GMT

John,

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Besides, with the timestamp bug on the forum, how do we know you were really first? :)

JP

Re: Scripting

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:34:51 GMT

I was. But obviously Robert does not like perl :/

Re: Scripting

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:39:39 GMT

At least he didn't cut and paste the

Regards,
John

part.

Pete

Re: Scripting

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:05:22 GMT

Can't resist..

Check this one out..

works for me!!

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x276e50011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Later,
Bill

Nice one jimmy!!