So the short story is I got a small UPS for my tv, xbox and cable modem so that I won’t be interrupted by small power hiccups. I decided I wanted to know how long my CRT tv and xbox would continue while watching a movie so I needed something to count with while I unplugged the power to test it.<\/p>\n
Now I’m sure others have written scripts and I could probably have just used the clock on the computer but I decided it couldn’t be too difficult to figure out how to write a script to do this. I knew that I basically had to just create a loop that would print a number increasing by one and then wait one second and repeat. I just had to find the right commands. About 10 to 15 minutes of searching later and I had this:
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Some of the methods are a little different from what I am used to. To increase $x by 1, I am used to $x++. Bash is different I guess. There may be simpler ways to do this as well. If so, please leave a comment as I’m hopeful to learn.<\/p>\n Sample output: Also note this script will continue to run until the user types the escape sequence ‘Ctrl+C<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n Some sources used to find what I needed:<\/p>\n So the short story is I got a small UPS for my tv, xbox and cable modem so that I won’t be interrupted by small power hiccups. I decided I wanted to know how long my CRT tv and xbox would continue while watching a movie so I needed something to count with while I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10],"tags":[127,128,129,71,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}#!\/bin\/bash
\n#A very basic time counting script.
\n#init value of x
\nx=1
\n#make y 1 less than x
\ny=$((x-1))
\necho \"Counting from $y...\" #Output what number we are beginning from
\n while [ $x -ge 0 ] #While $x is >= 0 (all the time)
\n do
\n sleep 1 #Wait one second
\n echo $x #Echo value of $x
\n x=$((x+1)) #Increase $x by 1
\n done
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n$ .\/count.sh
\nCounting from 0...
\n1
\n2
\n3
\n4
\n5<\/code><\/p>\n\n