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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Paging/Scrolling a List of files for selection Post 302342680 by kshji on Monday 10th of August 2009 11:56:30 AM
Old 08-10-2009
Put the filelist to the array then select which lines/how many lines from array you like to show.
Code:
list=( $(ls -dr /home/* ) )
lines=${#list[*]}
first=${list[0]}

Some comments:
Code:
#no need to use external expr, ksh+bash can do it using builtin ((    ))
# = usually more safty use /bin/ksh or /bin/bash, you never know which version
# of shell the /bin/sh will be
#ITEMCOUNT=$(expr ${ITEMCOUNT} + 1)
(( ITEMCOUNT=ITEMCOUNT + 1 ))
# or
(( ITEMCOUNT+=1 ))

# it's enough
while true
do
    ...
# because true will return exit code 0, no need anymore test it

 

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