12-11-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
keyboardkowboy
oh thats where i messed up the in case and esac. cfajohnson y didnt you just tell me to add a case and esac. it works now. thanks vidyadhar85 your my hero. cfajohnson i dont know how you expect a 14 year old to answer questions instead of just pointing out the obvious of me just adding the "case/esac"
keyboardkowboy,
there was much more missing in your original code than just 'case/esac' - some fundamental shell constructs were simply either not implemented correctly and/or missing. The point that cfajohnson tried to make was to
help you to arrive at the 'glimpse' of the solution, rather than
giving you the solution.
Asking pointed question some (???) times is more helpful in the long run than the instant gratification that you've received so far.
As far as being '14 years old'.... these boards (and the rest of the forums) are pretty agnostic to the age of the participants - there's no "discrimination"
Hopefully you understood the solution enough to help you in the future.
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colorset
COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)
NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1)
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