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paleogryph 10-14-2003 12:30 PM
How to echo a flashing cursor?
 
Bash Shell script on RH8. How can I display a flashing cursor in an echo statement? I have stty disable the echo from stdin while read is waiting for input, but I would like to have a flashing cursor echo.

Example:

echo -n "Enter your password: "
stty -echo
read PW

I've read quite a few man pages but haven't seen anything yet.
Any ideas?

SaTaN 10-14-2003 01:29 PM
Re: How to echo a flashing cursor?
 
Quote:
Originally posted by paleogryph
I would like to have a flashing cursor echo.
Can you please be a bit more precise ...

david_ross 10-14-2003 01:29 PM
Try changing your echo statement to:
Code:
echo -en "Enter your password: \033[47;05;40m_\033[00m"

paleogryph 10-15-2003 09:55 AM
That works to a degree
 
David, thanks for the info.
Can you point me to a url that has more of those codes to use with echo?

thanks

david_ross 10-15-2003 01:09 PM
Take a look at this howto:
http://www.64-bit.de/dokumentationen...OWTO.html#toc5


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