I have written a Bash Script that captures video via the Linux application DVgrab. When run my script prompts the terminal user to enter all the necessary information for the capture, save location, file name, file type capture duration etc...

These are all in the form of

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter the duration for the capture: "
read duration

dvgrab -loacation /home/somefolder -filetype avi -duration $duration

#!/bin/bash
time=5
until [ time = 1 ]
do 
 -my whole script-
done

Something like this, the loop stops if the user enters an empty string:

#!/bin/bash

stop=1

while [ $stop -gt 0 ]
do
  echo -n "Enter the duration for the capture: "
  read duration

  case "$duration" in
    "") stop=0 ;;
     *) dvgrab -loacation /home/somefolder -filetype avi -duration $duration ;;
  esac
done

Hmm, I think I wasn't clear in what I'm trying to achieve. My problem is not related to stopping the script, but in getting the script to repeat.

There are 4 questions that the script prompts the user to enter as variables, and what I want to script to do is essentially start over once it's finished. So that after one tape ends, the script is already waiting for the information (a new instance of each of the variables) for the next tape to be entered...

As it stands I achieve this by simply typing in the command to run the script again after each tape finishes, but I want to eliminate this extra step.

Thanks for your help
-Starcast

Franklin52: Your Loop suggestion works perfectly for what I want, thanks...

But I've discovered my problem is not in my looping instructions, but in a -read- error, namely one that looks like this:

./test5: line 14: read: read error: 0: Resource temporarily unavailable
(line 14 is the last line in the code below)

When I run this code:

#!/bin/bash

function record
{
dvgrab --format raw --duration smpte=$tape_length:00 --noavc --size 0 tapename.dv
}

tape_lenght=00:00:10

record

echo -n "Test -read- command:"
read null2

how 'bout saving and restoring the stty:

#!/bin/bash

function record
{
dvgrab --format raw --duration smpte=$tape_length:00 --noavc --size 0 tapename.dv
}

tape_lenght=00:00:10

_STTY=$(stty -g)
record
stty "$_STTY"

echo -n "Test -read- command:"
read null2

Thanks for the suggestion, but after inserting those two lines I am still getting the same error message...

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
-Starcast