Display on Bash

[Ben Coffman]

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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