Display on Bash

[cdowns]

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,
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>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.
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>When I say script, I mean computer code (to be specific).  Something along
>the lines of ....cout or
>        printf or
>        echo,
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>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.
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>I hope this helps, I didn't mean my description to be so abstract.
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>----- 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
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>>Quoting Ben Coffman <Ben_coffman at hotmail.com>:
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>>>I just need some example code for the script.  Or basically where I
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>>>pipe it to so the text would display on the command prompt.
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>>I know you just want general answers, but as with most things linux there
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>>a number of ways to do this, including mechanisms inteneded to alert users
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>>certain conditions, notify them of policy changes, shutdowns, or even lab
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>hour
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>>changes.  There's the Message of the Day (motd) that displays at login,
>>"issue", and more.
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>>The most obvious of these has evolved into what we know of as email, but
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>>are live console display facilities as well.  Take a look at "message".
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>>"wall" utility was mentioned because it's "write to all".
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>>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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