1#!/bin/sh 2# $Id: shortlist,v 1.2 2011/03/02 00:11:50 tom Exp $ 3# make a short listing, which writes to both stdout and stderr. 4 5if test $# != 0 6then 7 count=$1 8else 9 count=10 10fi 11 12while test $count != 0 13do 14 echo "** $count -- `date`" 15 w >&2 16 sleep 1 17 count=`expr $count - 1 2>/dev/null` 18 test -z "$count" && count=0 19done 20