please see other post:
My menu function [new code -revised]
But in reply to your questions: .hits files are numerous files populated with hundres of rows in the format:
Code:
137.44.2.8 Mon Feb 4 22:02:35 GMT 2008
149.192.2.81 Mon Feb 4 23:22:12 GMT 2008
132.53.17.171 Tue Feb 5 01:56:16 GMT 2008
I have scripts that search sepearetly for the date month and year to output the results into a tempfile. Thus limiting the results from all the hits files.
I am using a grep command to do so.
Secondly I use the case command to validate all of these inputs the user makes.
The reason i have not grouped it all together, is because i dont know how. Unlike most "students" on here i tend to only use what i understand or know. compared to people who just post hwk on here, and if i need help with a command then i come to here. Although this has nothing to do with coursework, and is just a mess about task for me to help me with my placement for next year where i will be having unix and perl experience.
I am a complete beginner to this. The reason there are pauses is because its just so i can see if everything runs ok and it gives me time to look at it.
If you refer to the link above you will see the problem. I want my "option 2" in my menu to ignore the stuff i already have in place, and run something else in the same script.
Sorry to be such a lamen about this whole thing but its the first time ive extensively used UNIX.
