Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:15:42 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This is a cool shell prompt question Message-ID: <20041124061542.391fbadf@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20041124092452.34756.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041124092452.34756.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:24:51 -0800 (PST), Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> wrote: > Good day! > I'm just wondrin if its possible for me to run > applications at boot time but on another terminal. I > find it cool to have a huge digital clock (grdc) > running on background so that I can just shift to > another terminal whenever I want to know the time. > Actually, all I really want is a clock that is > continuously ticking whatever I may be doing(in > terminal window). I've already learned how to set my > prompt to multiple lines and also displaying my > current working directory. But now, I want it even > more informative displaying a ticking digital clock in > my shell prompt like the one i'm seeing in my kde > system tray right now. > Is it possible?. Thanks. Depending on which shell you're using, I'd say yes, since just about anything is possible under Unix. :-) However, how to do this is not immediately obvious to me. Sorry. :-) Might be a good question for the comp.unix.shell newsgroup. Some serious shell gurus hanging out over there, and they always rise to a good challenge. :-) If you do find out anything, a followup here would be nice. Thanks! -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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