Happy New Year :)

[remus]

Happy new year Every ONE !! 
55min to 2012 from Brisbane, Australia

[Rich]

Happy new year to all.

[thane]

Happy New Year! Although I'm near Honolulu so there's 13+ hours to go...

[Lee]

+1 on the "Happy New Year!"

[coreplayer2]

Good Luck and a Happy New Year to All

Only 8+ hours and counting...

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#!/bin/bash
#my simple countdown
#
. /etc/init.d/tc-functions
num=28800
while (( num > 0 ))
do
clear
echo -n "${CYAN}Countdown to 2012: ${GREEN}$num${NORMAL}"
sleep 1
let num-=1
clear
done

echo "Hoora!!"

[Lee]

Cogratulations coreplayer2.  You are the first one to teach me something cool this year.  I have so often wished for the -= operator but, since I typically don't use "let", I never new it was there.  I guess one of the long term hazards of BASIC-as-a-first-language is the deeply ingrained notion that "VAR=VALUE" is exactly the same as "let VAR=VALUE", which clearly is not the case in shell scripting.

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num=`expr ${NUM} \- 1`


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let num-=1

Thanks for demonstrating such a useful tool.

[coreplayer2]

Ha ha!  Your welcome, glad it was enlightening.  Am trying to learn bash as fast as possible, btw this "let" which I found quite interesting, was able to use on a project I'm currently working on.  So whilst it was still fresh in mind wrote a countdown the new year.