skroll

scroll a text to stdout
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commit 90d79c5a47a33f322aa8a376816dde11ce8ff1f7
parent 39c8d624a1306f052a5a57d005ea7046f91028ab
Author: z3bra <willy@mailoo.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 26 13:39:33 2014

Can now output a new line after each scroll step

Diffstat:
 skroll.1 | 8 +++++---
 skroll.c | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/skroll.1 b/skroll.1 @@ -3,20 +3,22 @@ skroll - make a given text scroll .SH SYNOPSIS .B skroll -.RI [\| \-hl\| ]\ [\| -n\ num\| ]\ [\| -d\ delay\| ] +.RI [\| \-hlr\| ]\ [\| -n\ num\| ]\ [\| -d\ delay\| ] .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .B skroll reads text on stdin and make it scroll to stdout .TP +.B \-d delay +Make scroll steps last <delay> seconds .B \-h Display a help text .B \-l Loop text forever .B \-n num Show <num> char at a time -.B \-d delay -Make scroll steps last <delay> seconds +.B \-r +Output a new line after each step .SH BUGS .PP No bugs known actually. Feel free to report them at willy@mailoo.org diff --git a/skroll.c b/skroll.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #define BUFFER_SIZE 512 +static bool newline = false;/* print a new line after each step */ static bool loop = false; /* wether to loop text or not */ static float delay = 1; /* scroll speed, in usec */ static int number = 10; /* number of chars to be shown at the same time */ @@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ void skroll (const char *input) zero_fill(&buf, number); printf("\r%s", buf); + if (newline) putc('\n', stdout); + fflush(stdout); usleep(delay*1000000); } @@ -91,14 +94,15 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) char ch; const char *buf = NULL; - while ( (ch = getopt(argc, argv, "hd:ln:")) != -1 ) { + while ( (ch = getopt(argc, argv, "hd:ln:r")) != -1 ) { switch (ch) { case 'h': - printf("usage: %s [-hl] [-d delay] [-n number]", argv[0]); + printf("usage: %s [-hlr] [-d delay] [-n number]", argv[0]); break; case 'd': delay = strtof(optarg, NULL); break; case 'n': number = strtoul(optarg, NULL, 10); break; case 'l': loop = true; break; + case 'r': newline = true; break; } }