[Lug-Nuts] BASH question

From: Daniel de Young (ddeyoung@jps.net)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 17:31:45 PST


Hi all,

I'm new to shell scripting and would appreciate advice on how to
accomplish something.

I want to create a script that types out a question like it's being type
realtime by the computer. As in, when a string is echoed I would like
to make it appear with a small delay between each character being
displayed. Of course I could make a loop function and echo each letter
of a string without a character return, but I was wondering if anybody
knew how to do this more simply.

Hmmm, I wonder if that makes any sense... :-)

Thanks,

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