On 12/07/2011 06:04 PM, Justin Pogue wrote: > At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; > do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that > I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I > need to be able to see is whether or not there are any files being > created there. All I need is 2 or 3 lines of output. > > What would be awesome would be the ability to adjust the height of a > specific window in the stack and have all of the other windows just > fill the available space. I am not much of a programmer outside of > the occasional butchering of perl for the purposes of automating > things I don't really understand. If this would be easy to do and > someone is bored and/or feels like being a generally awesome guy, I > would be forever in your debt. If this already exists or if there are > better solutions, I'm open to that too. > > regards, > > justin >
I use screen for that: open term, launch screen, split window (C-a S), resize upper (or lower) half to desired height (C-a :resize 10), run your commands, switch to other half (C-a tab), launch new shell (C-a C-c). You now have 10-line 'status' window with still functional terminal below. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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