Shell Script to Display Time and Date in the Top Right Corner of the Screen.

Using tput command:
#!/bin/bash
# SCRIPT: digclock.sh
# USAGE:  ./digiclock &
# PURPOSE: Displays time and date in the top right corner of the
#          screen using tput command.
# To stop this digclock use command "kill pid"
################################################################

####################### VARIABLE DECLARATION ###################

 # To place the clock on the appropriate column, subtract the
 # length of $Time and $Date, which is 22, from the total number
 # of columns

  Columns=$(tput cols)
  Startpoint=$(($Columns-22))

 # If you're in an X Window System terminal,you can resize the
 # window, and the clock will adjust its position because it is
 # displayed at the last column minus 22 characters.

  Color1=`tput setab 2`        # Green background color for time
  Color2=`tput setab 6`        # Cyan  background color for date
  Normal=`tput sgr0`           # back to normal screen colors

####################### MAIN PROGRAM ###########################

# The script is executed inside a while without conditions

while :
do
  Time=`date +%r`
  Date=`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`
  tput sc                   #Save the cursor position&attributes
  tput cup 0 $Startpoint

 # You can also use bellow one liner
 # tput cup 0 $((`tput cols`-22))
 # But it is not efficient to calculate cursor position for each
 # iteration. That's why I placed variable assignment before
 # beginning of the loop.

 # print time and date in the top right corner of the screen.

  echo -n $Color1$Time $Color2$Date$Normal

 # restore the cursor to whatever was its previous position

  tput rc

 # Delay for 1 second

  sleep 1

done

Using ANSI escape sequences:
 The ANSI escape sequences don't work in all terminal emulators, but
they do fine in xterm. Here's the script:

#!/bin/bash
# SCRIPT: digclock.sh
# USAGE:  ./digiclock &
# PURPOSE: Displays time and date in the top right corner of the
#          screen using ANSI escape sequences.
# To stop this digclock use command kill pid.
################################################################

#################### VARIABLE DECLARATION ######################

 # To place the clock on the appropriate column, subtract the
 # length of $Time and $Date, which is 22, from the total number
 # of columns

  Columns=$(tput cols)
  Startpoint=$(($Columns-22))

 # If you're in an X Window System terminal,you can resize the
 # window, and the clock will adjust its position because it is
 # displayed at the last column minus 22 characters.

########################### MAIN PROGRAM #######################

# The script is executed inside a while without conditions.

while :
do
  Time=`date +%r`
  Date=`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`
  echo -en "\033[s"    #save current screen position & attributes

  tput cup 0 $Startpoint

 # You can also use bellow one liner.
 # tput cup 0 $((`tput cols`-22))
 # But it is not efficient to calculate cursor position for each
 # iteration. That's why I placed variable assignment before
 # beginning of the loop

 # print time and date in the top right corner of the screen

  echo -en "\033[42m$Time \033[46m$Date\033[0m"

 #restore current screen position & attributes

  echo -e -n "\033[u"

 #Delay for 1 second

  sleep 1
done
 Save the script as digclock.sh,change permissions to 755 using chmod,
and run it with ./digclock.sh & or . digclock.sh & or sh digclock &.
The time and date should now appear at the top right of your screen.

Output:



 When you run digclock.sh, the terminal will return the job number and
process identifier (PID) of the digclock.sh process. From above output
you can find job number is "1" and PID is "15800".

You can end the execution of the script by two ways:

1. Using the kill command and specifying the job number or process ID.
   If you don't remember job number or PID, you can get job number by
   running jobs command and PID by ps command.

$ jobs
[1]+  Running                 ./digclock.sh &
$ shell]# ps | grep digclock
15800 pts/1    00:00:00 digclock.sh
 To kill this job/process, either kill %1 or kill 15800 works.

$ kill %1
$
[1]+  Terminated              ./digclock.sh
              or
$ kill 15800
$
[1]+  Terminated              ./digclock.sh
2. Using the fg command. The fg command switches a job running in the
   background into the foreground, Then press Ctrl+c to terminate the
   job. If no job number is specified, then fg command acts upon the
   currently running job.

$ fg 1
./digclock.sh

Ctrl+c
$
 With this script, you can display not only a clock, but other useful
information as well. For example,monitoring free space with df command
or CPU's load average with uptime command. Samba, Apache, and many
other servers have status commands where you can extract pieces of
information to show this way.

How to Handle Cursor Movement in a Shell Script

Using ANSI escape sequences :
 ANSI escape sequences or tput allow you to move the cursor around the
screen at will. This is more useful for full screen user interfaces
generated by shell scripts, but can also be used in prompts.

The movement escape sequences are as follows:

        - Position the Cursor:
          \033[<L>;<C>H
             Or
          \033[<L>;<C>f
          puts the cursor at line L and column C.
        - Move the cursor up N lines:
          \033[<N>A
        - Move the cursor down N lines:
          \033[<N>B
        - Move the cursor forward N columns:
          \033[<N>C
        - Move the cursor backward N columns:
          \033[<N>D
        - Clear the screen, move to (0,0):
          \033[2J
        - Erase to end of line:
          \033[K
        - Save cursor position:
          \033[s
        - Restore cursor position:
          \033[u

 The latter two codes are NOT honored by many terminal emulators. The
only ones that I'm aware of that do are xterm and nxterm - even though
the majority of terminal emulators are based on xterm code. As far as
I can tell, rxvt, kvt, xiterm, and Eterm do not support them. They are
supported on the console.

$ echo -en "\033[s\033[7B\033[1;34m BASH BASH\033[u\033[0m"

 Above line  saves the current cursor position(\033[s), then move the
cursor seven lines down the screen(\033[7B),print the word "BASH BASH"
in dark blue color(\033[1;34m), and then return to where it started to
produce a normal prompt(\033[u), and also back to the normal color
(\033[0m).

Example:

$ echo -en "\033[s\033[7B\033[1;34m BASH BASH\033[u\033[0m"
$






BASH BASH
Using tput command:
 As with so many things in Unix, there is more than one way to achieve
the same ends.A utility called tput can also be used to move the cursor
around the screen, get back information about the status of the termi-
nal, or set colors.

 man tput doesn't go into much detail about the available commands,but
man terminfo will give you a huge list of capabilities, many of which
are device independent, and therefore better than the escape sequences
previously mentioned.

Here is some useful tput capabilities:

tput Cursor Movement Capabilities:
tput cup Y X
        Move cursor to screen location X,Y (top left is 0,0)

tput sc
        Save the cursor position

tput rc
        Restore the cursor position

tput lines
        Output the number of lines of the terminal

tput cols
        Output the number of columns of the terminal

tput cub N
        Move N characters left

tput cuf N
        Move N characters right
tput cuu N
        up N lines

tput cud N
        down N lines

tput Colour Capabilities :
tput setab [1-7] 
        Set a background colour using ANSI escape

tput setb [1-7] 
        Set a background colour

tput setaf [1-7] 
        Set a foreground colour using ANSI escape

tput setf [1-7] 
        Set a foreground colour

tput Text Mode Capabilities: 
tput bold 
        Set bold mode

tput dim 
        turn on half-bright mode

tput smul 
        begin underline mode

tput rmul 
        exit underline mode

tput rev 
        Turn on reverse mode

tput smso 
        Enter standout mode (bold on rxvt)

tput rmso 
        Exit standout mode

tput sgr0 
        Turn off all attributes (doesn't work quite as expected).

tput Clear and Insert Capabilities :
tput ech N 
        Erase N characters

tput clear 
        clear screen and home cursor

tput el1 
        Clear to beginning of line

tput el 
        clear to end of line

tput ed 
        clear to end of screen

tput ich N 
        insert N characters (moves rest of line forward!)

tput il N 
        insert N lines

  This is by no means a complete list of what terminfo and tput allow,
in fact it's only the beginning. man tput and man terminfo if you want
to know more.

Example:

$ tput sc;tput cup 4 35;tput setaf 2;echo "Hello World";\
> tput rc;tput sgr0
$ 

                                   Hello World

Bellow example shows two different ways to achieve same task:

$ tput sc;tput  cud 7;tput setaf 4;echo BASH BASH; tput rc;\
> tput sgr0
$ echo -en "\033[s\033[7B\033[0;34m BASH BASH\033[u\033[0m"