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.