Need a countdown clock, and all you have is a bash terminal? No problem! Mark, from Bloomington, shows how:
p.s. you'll need to "apt-get install figlet" (or equivalent for your distro) first. p.p.s. ...or edit the line and substitute "echo" for "figlet". ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Krenz <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM Subject: [BLUG] New Years Countdown timer To: [email protected] This is what I just posted to the climagic account on twitter and identi.ca: while V=$((`date +%s -d"2010-01-01"`-`date +%s`));do if [ $V == 0 ];then figlet 'Happy New Year!';break;else figlet $V;sleep 1;clear;fi;done Of course I was limited to 140 characters. Anyways, I thought some people here might appreciate this little snippet. -- Mark Krenz Bloomington Linux Users Group http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/ _______________________________________________ BLUG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
