Display on Bash

[Ben Coffman]

That will work
----- Original Message ----- 
From: cdowns 
To: kclug at kclug.org 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Display on Bash

uhmmmm Im a little confused here, I dont understand what you want to do exactly. do you mean a 
simple app to STDOUT to a term ? - super simple baby perl script below.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# ask my name

print "what is your name: ";
$name = <STDIN>; 
chomp($name);
print "hello $name, nice to meet you.n";
#EOF

that prints to your shell and asks a question. Is this the kinda thing you are looking to do ?

~!>D

Ben Coffman wrote:

Jonathan,

Thanks for the suggestions.  Both suggestions you said (message and wall)
would work.  But I am looking for more of a bash script or perl script that
would simply output some text to the command prompt.  Not a prefabricated
program.

When I say script, I mean computer code (to be specific).  Something along
the lines of ....cout or
printf or
echo,

Something real basic, a place to start with a program.  Lets say I can have
the script output a statement;  then later I would add some more and have it
output random statements that I programmed.  It would be simply for me to
have a starting point.

I hope this helps, I didn't mean my description to be so abstract.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>
To: "Ben Coffman" <Ben_coffman at hotmail.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Display on Bash

Quoting Ben Coffman <Ben_coffman at hotmail.com>:

I just need some example code for the script.  Or basically where I
would
pipe it to so the text would display on the command prompt.
I know you just want general answers, but as with most things linux there
are
a number of ways to do this, including mechanisms inteneded to alert users
of
certain conditions, notify them of policy changes, shutdowns, or even lab
hour
changes.  There's the Message of the Day (motd) that displays at login,
"issue", and more.

The most obvious of these has evolved into what we know of as email, but
there
are live console display facilities as well.  Take a look at "message".
The
"wall" utility was mentioned because it's "write to all".

Let us know a little more about what you're up to and your environment and
we'll be glad to pitch in.

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