I'm currently writing a shell script menu which is dynamically populated from an array. Have a question to ask about the filtering of invalid input. I'm using KSH.
A brief description of my algorithm is as follows:
1) Read in input from user and store in a variable. (a valid input would be a numerical value)
2) Use an if conditional to determine if this variable if smaller than the total number of elements in an array. If so, print out some value and break out of the infinite while loop (a while true loop). Otherwise, print error statement and let loop iterate again.
The code is as follows:
Code:
while true
do
if [$choice -lt ${#sysNames[*]} ]
then
echo "something"
break
else
echo "Invalid. Please retry"
fi
done
This code works if I enter numerical values. However, the program always executes the if-then portion of the code when i key in some garbage as input (ie. strings, characters). How can I re-write the code such that alphabetical chars and strings would get thrown to the else portion?
Code:
while true
do
read choice
case $choice in
*[0-9]*) echo "Invalid. Please retry"; continue ;;
esac
if [ $choice -lt ${#sysNames[*]} ]
then
echo "something"
break
else
echo "Invalid. Please retry"
fi
done
I want to write a script in KSH that takes the output of one command and redisplays it. Something like:
while true
do
read inpt
date +"%I:%M:%S %p <-> $inpt"
done
and then some how get the output of the ping command to redirect to the input of this script.
does that make sense? (2 Replies)
Hey Guys.
I need to code a series of menus that have four options, selectable either by the number in the menu or the name, in succession. This part I have achieved however I am struggling to find a way that should the user try to enter an invalid selection, such as the number 5 or an incorrect... (5 Replies)
Dear All,
Kindly suggest on how should i proceed with the following requirement
I need to develop an interactive shell script menu which would enable the user to inquire the value of a column based on a key value . The output can be more records..
Also is it possible to do the following
1)... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have to write s script to check an input file for invalid characters. In this script I have to find the exact line of the invalid character. If the input file contain 2 invalid character sat line 10 and 17, the script will show the value 10 and 17. Any help is appreciated. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need help in unziping input file through shell script.
I had written script, which checks for input file extention.
If Extension is "zip" or "gz", then I want to do unzip/uncompress that file.
Caould you please let me know that, How to unzip a file through shell script (ksh).
Thanks... (16 Replies)
Hi
I have a file like so:
Code:
Frank Peter Tony Robert Mike 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 2 3 1 4 3 1 5 2
My out should look like this:
Peter
Tony
Mike
and so on....
I have the first part done to ask the user to... (8 Replies)
I am using mutt on ksh Unix to send emails to addresses plucked from the database. If the "To:" email address is not longer valid and so the email is not sent to the "To:" recipient, but is sent to the valid cc address, I need to be able to get an error code returned to the shell script so that... (3 Replies)
The script below fails with the following error messages:
gzip: invalid option -- 'w'
Try `gzip --help' for more information.
mysqldump: Got errno 32 on write
cp: invalid option -- 'w'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
rm: invalid option -- 'w'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
if.conf
NETSCRIPT-2.2.conf(5) File Formats Manual NETSCRIPT-2.2.conf(5)NAME
/etc/netscript/network.conf - interface, firewalling, and QoS configuration file.
/etc/netscript/if.conf - interface setup shell script file
/etc/netscript/qos.conf - QoS setup shell script file
/etc/netscript/ipfilter.conf - IP chains filtering shell script file
/etc/netscript/srvfilter.conf - server IP filter shell script file
DESCRIPTION
This manpage is a place holder until something better is written when the netscript itself has stopped changing rapidly.
Please see the README file in the /etc/netscript directory, and READ the configuration files if you need to change them. Apart from net-
work.conf, all of them contain sh (1) shell script functions which are there so that various things can be altered or hooked in at the
right place. Network.conf contains the full network setup details, including special interface setup for the likes of ciped/pppd/wanconfig,
and is fully commented with examples given.
UPGRADE PATH FROM KERNEL 2.2.X
The firewall/IP filtering stuff in ipfilter.conf is the part that changed radically with the move to iptables and a far better way of set-
ting up the IP filtering rules, however the QoS and interface startup/shutdown in if.conf have changed but are backwards compatible with
the old 2.2.x ipchains version of netscript for the interface address configuration settings. You will have to set up the filtering again
to use iptables by directly using the iptables commands.
Also, the kernel 2.2.x version scripts are set up so that iptables is only run on a 2.4.x kernel, otherwise IP forwarding is disabled if
beforehand you set IPFWDING_KERNEL to FILTER_ON in network.conf.
This means that when you upgrade a box to a 2.4.x router kernel, you should then be able to reboot it and log into remotely and upgrade
netscript to the version that will support 2.4.x. In this situation, if you have set old IPFWDING_KERNEL setting to FILTER_ON beforehand
in network.conf, all IP forwarding through the box will also be disabled. This means that you can safely remotely upgrade a firewall.
SEE ALSO netscript(8), ipchains(8), iproute(8), brcfg(8).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
BUGS
The author is lazy. He needs to write btter man pages...
November 23, 2000 NETSCRIPT-2.2.conf(5)