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UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4186- July 28, 2012
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Unix Tip #4186- July 28, 2012
BE ALARMED
Name the following script
alarm. Make it executable
and them invoke it as:
% alarm 10 "Time for tea"
After 10 seconds machine will
echo Time for Tea
and beep five times.....
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#! /usr/bin/ksh
# alarm program
# displays a message at
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo "USAGE : $0 seconds message"
exit 1
fi
time=$1
mesg=$2
signal_alarm()
{
sleep $time
banner $mesg
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
if [ $i -eq 2 -o $i -eq 4 -o $i -eq 6 -o $i -eq 8 ]
then
sleep 1
else
tput bel
fi
done
}
case $1 in
[0-9][0-9][0-9] | [0-9] | [0-9][0-9] )signal_alarm &;;
*)echo Seconds range is from 0 to 199;;
esac
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