Re: [LUG] Time Warpz

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 14:05, paul wrote:
> echo sleep for 10 seconds
> echo sleep 10
> echo 10 second elapsed.
>
> not sure if you can have a beep with shell scripts,  but I guess the shell
> sleep command uses the unix clock where as say perl equivilent uses the
> interpreter, or something

try echo -e "\007"

Although if you're looking for accuracy you want to remember that sleep
doesn't seem to be a shell builtin and therefore will take time to
start.   Maybe do it in C? or assembler? :)

Alex.



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