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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Simple VI script Post 1089 by brassmon_k on Wednesday 7th of February 2001 01:56:59 PM
Old 02-07-2001
Question
Okay using vi editor regular vi not VIM or any other hybrid.

What I'm trying to do is make a simple script in the csh. By the way what's better csh or sh for scripting? It's been a while since I did vi scripting....Anyway here's the purpose of the script.

I want to be able to give the script a "yes" answer and a "no" answer.....The yes answer will exit out of the script, and the no answer will cause the program to loop with an echo of "Do you want to exit" reading the answer everytime to check for yes or no. My problem is that the program reads the answer but no matter what answer I give the script it exits out of the script after it finishes echoing what I told it to. I can't get it to do what I want and need a bit of help....Here's the script...I know super basic I feel dumb. Here it is:

#/bin/sh

if [ "$answer" = "" ]; then read answer
while answer=n; do echo "Do you want to exit"
read answer
if answer=y; then exit
fi
done
fi
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

faxanswer

FAXANSWER(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      FAXANSWER(8)

NAME

       faxanswer - tell a HylaFAX server to answer the telephone

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/faxanswer [ -q queue-dir ] [ -h how ] modem

DESCRIPTION

       faxanswer sends a message to the HylaFAX faxgetty(8) process servicing modem telling it to answer the telephone.  This is useful, for exam-
       ple, when a modem is used on a shared phone line and the server is configured to not normally answer the phone.

       The specified modem can either be the name (typically the last component of the terminal port the modem is attached to), or the	full  name
       of the associated FIFO named pipe file, e.g. ``FIFO.ttym2''.

OPTIONS

       -q dir	 Use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax.

       -h	 Specify  exactly  how	the phone should be answered.  By default, the server process is instructed to answer the phone and accept
		 any kind of call (voice, data, fax).  Discrimination of the type of call is dependent on a modem's adaptive-answer support.   The
		 -h  option  can be used to force the server to answer the phone for particular type of call: one of fax, data, voice, any, extern
		 (to force faxgetty to invoke an external application to to handle the call), or dialX (where X is a  dialstring  to  dial  before
		 initiating a fax reception).  If using dialX, the specified dialstring will likely need to end with a semicolon (``;'').

FILES

       /var/spool/hylafax		  default spooling area
       /var/spool/hylafax/FIFO		  fifo for contacting faxq

       Consult hylafax-server(5) for a complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area.

SEE ALSO

       hylafax-server(5), faxgetty(8)

								   May 23, 1996 						      FAXANSWER(8)
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