best kitten entertainment program for Linux?

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Mike Kallies<mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Julian C. Dunn wrote:
>> I have an amusing request for TLUGgers. My new kitten regards the mouse
>> cursor (har-de-har-har) on my Linux box as something worth chasing.
>> Although this is irritating while attempting to get some work done, I
>> find it extremely entertaining when not.
> ...
>
>
> Try this, there are lots of weird extensions, like decimal sleeps,
> printf and tput, 80x25 terminal, but it works in my boring Ubuntu
> install and it's easy enough that your kitten should be able to fix it :-)
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> x=20
> y=20
> xdir=1
> ydir=1
> width=77
> height=23
>
> clear
>
> while [ 1 ]
> do
>        if [ $x -gt $height ]; then xdir=-1; fi
>        if [ $y -gt $width ]; then ydir=-1; fi
>        if [ $x -lt 1 ]; then xdir=1; fi
>        if [ $y -lt 1 ]; then ydir=1; fi
>
>        tput cup $x $y
>        printf "#"
>
>        sleep .05
>
>        tput cup $x $y
>        printf " "
>
>        x=$(( x + xdir ))
>        y=$(( y + ydir ))
>
>
> done
>

This board is amazing, we even look out for kittens =)
-- 
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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