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Terminal - Commands using sleep - 256 results

while true; do tput sc; tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-74)); w | grep load; tput rc; sleep 10; done &

2011-04-27 09:28:27

User: ahofmann

Functions: grep sleep tput

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Put a console clock in top right corner

Gives not only date but also some interesting status about the System

say(){ mplayer -user-agent Mozilla "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo $* | sed 's#\ #\+#g')" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; }; sleep 3s && say "wake up, you bastard"

2011-04-25 12:43:26

User: return13

Functions: sleep

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Timer with sound alarm

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while true; do while [ `date +%H%M` == "1857" ] ; do sleep 1s; yes | head -n 2000 > /dev/dsp; done; done;

2011-04-23 14:44:26

User: mrwill

Functions: head sleep yes

-1

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a simple alarm

this command will beep like an alarm for one minute from 18:57. you can change "1857" to your desired time.

you should have alsa-oss package installed, and you should also be root or part of "audio" group.

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sleep 3s && espeak "wake up, you bastard" 2>/dev/null

2011-04-20 07:21:45

User: javisol

Functions: sleep

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Timer with sound alarm

I'd prefer this one, you have to install espeak to get this running

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while :; do sensors|grep ^Core|while read x; do printf '% .23s\n' "$x"; done; sleep 1 && clear; done;

2011-04-20 06:41:57

User: linuxrawkstar

Functions: grep printf read sleep

Tags: cpu usage cpu sensors

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monitor your CPU core temperatures in real time

Watch the temperatures of your CPU cores in real time at the command line. Press CONTROL+C to end.

GORY DETAILS: Your computer needs to support sensors (many laptops, for example, do not). You'll need to install the lm-sensors package if it isn't already installed. And it helps to run the `sensors-detect` command to set up your sensor kernel modules first. At the very end of the sensors-detect interactive shell prompt, answer YES to add the new lines to the list of kernel modules loaded at boot.

sleep 15m; yes > /dev/dsp

2011-04-17 15:19:14

User: winemore

Functions: sleep yes

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Timer with sound alarm

Just replace 15m with desired time. no suffix or 's' for seconds; 'h' for hours

You need to be root or in audio group to write to /dev/dsp.

You may use yes | head -n 2000 for about 1 second beep.

Wrote this as echo -e '\a' not always works as desired (ex. visual bell)

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(sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80562 8908 10999 &>/dev/null &); sleep 10; wait $(vlc http://localhost:10999); killall sp-sc

2011-04-06 00:08:38

User: Bonster

Functions: killall sleep wait

Tags: mplayer sopcast sp-sc

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View a sopcast stream

requires sp-auth installed

This command will auto kill sp-sc after vlc is closed, so u wont have to do it manually

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while cat /proc/net/dev; do sleep 1; done | awk '/eth0/ {o1=n1; o2=n2; n1=$2; n2=$10; printf "in: %9.2f\t\tout: %9.2f\r", (n1-o1)/1024, (n2-o2)/1024}'

2011-03-26 02:52:14

User: quadcore

Functions: awk cat printf sleep

Tags: Network watch rate interface

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Watch RX/TX rate of an interface in kb/s

A shorter version

alias screensaver='for ((;;)); do echo -ne "\033[$((1+RANDOM%LINES));$((1+RANDOM%COLUMNS))H\033[$((RANDOM%2));3$((RANDOM%8))m$((RANDOM%10))"; sleep 0.1 ; done'

2011-03-24 16:58:14

User: lkj

Functions: alias echo sleep

Tags: bash screensaver

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Screensaver

Console screensaver.

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while [[ 1 ]] ; do clear; banner `date +%H:%M:%S` ; sleep 1; done

2011-03-24 16:41:09

User: lkj

Functions: banner sleep

Tags: bash clock

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Console clock

Turn your terminal into digital clock.

while :; do OLD=$NEW; NEW=`cat /proc/net/dev | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f "3 11"`; echo $NEW $OLD | awk '{printf("\rin: % 9.2g\t\tout: % 9.2g", ($1-$3)/1024, ($2-$4)/1024)}'; sleep 1; done

2011-03-22 10:23:33

User: DerksIT

Functions: awk cut echo grep sleep tr

Tags: Network watch rate interface

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Watch RX/TX rate of an interface in kb/s

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while [ /bin/true ]; do OLD=$NEW; NEW=`cat /proc/net/dev | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f "3 11"`; echo $NEW $OLD | awk '{printf("\rin: % 9.2g\t\tout: % 9.2g", ($1-$3)/1024, ($2-$4)/1024)}'; sleep 1; done

2011-03-22 10:02:23

User: hons

Functions: awk cut echo grep sleep tr

Tags: Network watch rate interface

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Watch RX/TX rate of an interface in kb/s

Just a simple way without the need of additional tools. Of course, replace eth0 with your IF.

until (ssh [email protected] 2> /dev/null); do date; sleep 15; done

2011-03-08 08:42:12

User: greggster

Functions: sleep ssh

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do something else while waiting for an event, such as reboot

until (ssh [email protected] 2> /dev/null); do date; sleep 15; done

In this case will execute "date" then "sleep 15" until we are able to ssh into server, such as after a reboot

Could also be like:

until ( ping 10.1.1.39 1> /dev/null); do echo "server 10.1.1.39 is down"; sleep 15; done

MIN=10;for ((i=MIN*60;i>=0;i--));do echo -ne "\r$(date -d"0+$i sec" +%H:%M:%S)";sleep 1;done

2011-02-20 11:56:28

User: flatcap

Functions: echo sleep

Tags: date sleep timer for printf counter

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Countdown Clock

Countdown clock - Counts down from $MIN minutes to zero.

I let the date command do the maths.

This version doesn't use seq.

MIN=10 && for i in $(seq $(($MIN*60)) -1 1); do printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" $((i/3600)) $(( (i/60)%60)) $((i%60)); sleep 1; done

2011-02-20 10:24:22

User: bugmenot

Functions: printf seq sleep

Tags: timer counter

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Countdown Clock

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while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-29));date;tput rc;done &

2011-02-17 11:13:19

User: glaudiston

Functions: sleep tput

120

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Put a console clock in top right corner

A nice way to use the console in full screen without forget the current time.

you can too add other infos like cpu and mem use.

while sleep 1; do echo -n "\r`date`"; done

2011-02-15 23:48:37

User: nkoehring

Functions: echo sleep

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Console clock

Does the same but without a pipe and a new shell.

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while $i;do `notify-send -t 200 "You are awesome :)"`;sleep 60; done;

2011-02-14 18:49:38

User: pahnin

Functions: sleep

-1

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Get Informed by your box that you are awesome ;)

sends notification msg within repeated intervals of time to notify-send ;)

Just for fun.

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while pkill -0 prog1; do sleep 10; done; prog2

2011-02-12 02:53:53

User: daa

Functions: sleep

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Wait the end of prog1 and launch prog2

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pkill -0 prog1; while [ $? -eq 0 ]; do sleep 10; pkill -0 prog1; done; prog2

2011-02-11 21:46:42

User: Saorel

Functions: sleep

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Wait the end of prog1 and launch prog2

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sleep 3600; amixer set Master mute

2011-02-06 03:14:33

User: kenbarbour

Functions: amixer set sleep

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Mute speakers after an hour

Mutes the speakers after an hour, in case you fall asleep watching a video...

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while true; do curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | perl -p0e '($_)=m{<p>(.+?)</p>}s' | cowsay; sleep 2; done

2011-01-30 02:17:41

User: seungwon

Functions: perl sleep

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let the cow suggest some commit messages for you

I used curl instead of lynx.

while true; do lynx --dump http://whatthecommit.com/ | head -n 1 | cowsay; sleep 2; done

2011-01-27 14:36:12

User: linuxswords

Functions: head sleep

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let the cow suggest some commit messages for you

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while sleep 1; do acpi -t | osd_cat -p bottom; done &

2011-01-14 23:22:57

User: linuts

Functions: acpi sleep

Tags: cpu cpuinfo temperature

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To get the CPU temperature continuously on the desktop

No need for a colon, and one less semicolon too. Also untested.

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while :; do acpi -t | osd_cat -p bottom ; sleep 1; done &

2011-01-14 13:57:45

User: John_W

Functions: acpi sleep

Tags: cpu cpuinfo temperature

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To get the CPU temperature continuously on the desktop

There is no need for variables. I also added sleep to reduce cpu usage, however I didn't test it.

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