Simulate typing

• Simulate typing

  This will output the characters at 10 per second.

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  echo "You can simulate on-screen typing just like in the movies" | pv -qL 10
  dennisw · 2010-01-14 20:17:44 7
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• Simulate typing

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  echo "You can have a bit more realistic typing with some shell magic." | pv -qL $[10+(-2 + RANDOM%5)]
  nkoehring · 2011-02-16 01:40:35 0
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• Simulate typing but with mistakes

  The output will show jerk, then wonderful person since echo parses the \b character. Show Sample Output

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  You are a wonderful person

  
  

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  echo -e "You are a jerk\b\b\b\bwonderful person" | pv -qL $[10+(-2 + RANDOM%5)]
  joeheyming · 2013-01-09 19:18:07 0
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• Mac osx friendly version of this terminal typing command at 200ms per key

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  message="I have a nice easy typing pace"; for ((i=0; i<${#message}; i++)); do echo "after 200" | tclsh; printf "${message:$i:1}"; done; echo;
  davethomas11 · 2014-06-21 03:21:30 0
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not bad

Richie086 · 377 weeks ago

This is excellent! Much more realistic. Don't know why this was downvoted. Thanks for sharing!

Imposcillator · 374 weeks and 6 days ago

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