Re: ascii clocks
--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Russell Marks said it like only they can.)-- while the ideas you have are workable for fixing the vertical output they are not effciant i was going to go with an array for this so that i dont need to check the disk as much as emacs. and avoid the need for the trap comand all together. But thanks for the ideas >Fau...@home.com (Faux_Pseudo) wrote: > >> --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- >> --(Todd Vargo said it like only they can.)-- >> > >> now the time function works right now but i need to rewrite part of it >> becase the time prints like >> 2222 >> 22 22 >> 22 >> 22 >> 222 >> 222222 >[vertically-printing one digit after another mostly cut] >> 9999 >> 99 99 >> 9999 >> 99 >> 99 >> 99 >> >> instead of the corect horazontal out put > >Probably the best thing to do if you insist on doing this in bash (and >I have to say that's an amazingly perverse thing to do it in :-)) is >to output the digits to separate temporary files (when you start up >the clock program, preferably) and use `paste' to put them together. >For example, with files `2' and `9' as above: > >rus@cartman:2147:/home/rus/tmp>paste 2 9 > 2222 9999 >22 22 99 99 > 22 9999 > 22 99 > 222 99 >222222 99 > >(You could also make a temp file containing the necessary >cursor-positioning control codes, and list that first in the paste >command-line.) > >You might also want to look into using `trap' to clean up any such >temporary files on e.g. ^C. The basic idea would be to do something >like this before writing any of the files: > >trap 'rm -f files_to_delete' 0 1 3 15 > >(Obviously wildcards and variables are ok in the `rm' too.) > -- ._______. ._______. | <> <> | GUI's are for slackers. | <> <> | \-|o|-/ ibpconf.sh 5 on freshmeat.net \-|o|-/ /___\ the easiest way to personalize /___\ (MMM) the command line. By Faux_Pseudo (MMM)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,dd72bd170144bb61 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-01 23:39:28 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!howland.erols.net!news-out.worldnet.att.net.MISMATCH!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!wnmasters2!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Fau...@home.com (Faux_Pseudo) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ascii clocks References: <slr...@faux.local.net> <8taab1$guv$1...@neptunium.btinternet.com> <slr...@cx743464-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> <8tgvn4$n61r9$1...@ID-25025.news.dfncis.de> <slr...@faux.local.net> <8tk3u3$n4hgo$1...@ID-25025.news.dfncis.de> <slr...@faux.local.net> <vMWL5.933$5j5...@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> Reply-To: Fau...@yahoo.com Message-ID: <slr...@faux.local.net> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Lines: 67 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 07:39:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.23.36 X-Complaints-To: abu...@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 973150766 12.72.23.36 (Thu, 02 Nov 2000 07:39:26 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 07:39:26 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:2546
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