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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting scripting newbie... some help please? Post 302293657 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 3rd of March 2009 02:58:51 PM
Old 03-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmd9qs
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I realize that... however, I'm learning how to write scripts. I like to implement what I already know into them as much as possible. think of it as practice...

You don't learn by doing unnecessary things. Knowing what is necessary is part of learning.
Quote:

so, by this, do you mean i should:

Code:
dir_tree()
{
   : echo ""
   blah blah blah
}

or is the : just to show that input goes here?

That's where your function goes. Using your code, it would be:

Code:
dir_tree()
{
        echo "$TITLE"
        echo ""
        echo " You are here: $PWD"
        echo "These are the Files/Directories in $PWD"
        echo "$DIR_TREE"
}

 

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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) Linux Epoch Linux
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