busy

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 03 April 2014
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NAME

busy - keep the terminal busy

SYNOPSIS

edrc/bin/busy

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

DESCRIPTION

This command does nothing productive. It is used to keep a TCP/IP connection open. Using this command you will prevent a connection loss caused by a firewall which disconnects a session after a certain TCP timeout is reached.

To end type Ctrl+C .

OPTIONS

ENVIRONMENT

$BUSY_TURNING_INTERVAL

define the speed of the rotating slash in seconds.

Sometimes the default speed of 1 second might not be feasible, for example when old output has to be checked in the terminal scrolling the window up, the output of busy will cause the terminal to jump back to the line where the busy slash is turning.

$BUSY_ANIMATION

set the animation to display. Possible settings are inflate, spin, snip, snap, blink, cross, target, jump and slash.

EXIT STATUS

0

always.

FILES

EXAMPLES

NOTES

BUGS

AUTHOR

busy was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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