Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp

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Here is another cursor movement script that also calculates the low and high of the $RANDOM Bash variable. It might not look all that cool to everyone but it does show some more of the concepts we have covered in this book. I was also somewhat curious as to what the range of that random number generator was.

Chapter 10 - Script 1

#!/bin/sh # # 6/11/2017 # Chapter 10 - Script 1 # # Subroutines trap catchCtrlC INT # Initialize the trap # Subroutines catchCtrlC() { loop=0 # end the loop } cls() { tput clear } movestr() # move cursor to row, col, display string { tput cup $1 $2 echo -n "$3" } # Code if [ "$1" = "--help" ] ; then echo "Usage: script1 or script1 --help " echo " Shows the low and high count of the Bash RANDOM variable." ...