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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To operate MENU via script Post 302220740 by ashokm on Friday 1st of August 2008 12:57:30 PM
Old 08-01-2008
To operate MENU via script

Hi,

I run this utility very frequently. This utility displays some 5 options and again inturn these options have few more option to select.
For Eg : It looks like this

1. User Control
2. Locking and Waiting Statistics
3. Block Access
4. Record Locking Table
5. Activity
Enter your selection:

How do I paas the number through the script.

I need to write a script to select the options that I am interested in and write the output to a file.

Help me pls!!!

Thanks ,
Ashok Kumar M
 

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menu_opts(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions						menu_opts(3CURSES)

NAME
menu_opts, set_menu_opts, menu_opts_on, menu_opts_off - menus option routines SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lmenu -lcurses [ library... ] #include <menu.h> OPTIONS menu_opts(MENU *menu); int set_menu_opts(MENU *menu, OPTIONS opts); int menu_opts_on(MENU *menu, OPTIONS opts); int menu_opts_off(MENU *menu, OPTIONS opts); DESCRIPTION
Menu Options set_menu_opts() turns on the named options for menu and turns off all other options. Options are boolean values that can be OR-ed together. menu_opts_on() turns on the named options for menu; no other option is changed. menu_opts_off() turns off the named options for menu; no other option is changed. menu_opts() returns the current options of menu. The following values can be OR'd together to create opts. O_ONEVALUE Only one item can be selected from the menu. O_SHOWDESC Display the description of the items. O_ROWMAJOR Display the menu in row major order. O_IGNORECASE Ignore the case when pattern matching. O_SHOWMATCH Place the cursor within the item name when pattern matching. O_NONCYCLIC Make certain menu driver requests non-cyclic. RETURN VALUES
Except for menu_opts(), these routines return one of the following: E_OK The routine returned successfully. E_SYSTEM_ERROR System error. E_POSTED The menu is already posted. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), attributes(5) NOTES
The header <menu.h> automatically includes the headers <eti.h> and <curses.h>. SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 menu_opts(3CURSES)
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