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box_l

03-24-2005 05:05 AM

making the cursor spin

hi,
i am looking to find out how to make the cursor spin to show that you are waiting for a process to finish.

i see it when knoppix is booting.

looks like these characters.

|
/
-
\
|
/
-

TIA

BoX

keefaz

03-24-2005 05:22 AM

This is a little try :

Code:

clear

for i in  '|' '/' '-' '\\' '|' '/' '-'; do

    tput cup 4 20

    echo $i

    sleep 1

done

druuna

03-24-2005 05:25 AM

Hi,

Something like this maybe:

Code:

#!/bin/sh



sleep 10 &

pid=$!



printf "Processing |"

rotate='|/-\'



while kill -n 0 $pid 2>/dev/null; do

    rotate="${rotate#?}${rotate%???}"

    printf '\b%.1s' "$rotate"

    sleep 1

done

echo ''



wait $pid



echo "All done"

Hope this gets you going again.

box_l

03-24-2005 05:39 AM

thank you both for your quick replies.

you have both given me something to work on.

BoX

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