08-17-2009
forward/backward capable prompt
Hi,
I would like to construct an interactive prompt for a series of bash shell scripts. This prompt will ask the user a series of questions, and the answers will determine which scripts are run, and in which order.
I am familiar with the "read" command, and have successfully constructed a simple prompt. However, due to the inherent nature of shell scripts, the prompt is only capable of going forward; ie question #1 is asked, and once an answer is entered, question #2 is asked. The user is not able to then go back to question #1, unless he/she quits and starts over.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Is there a command that orders the shell to jump backward/forward to a specific line number of the script? My thought is that if the user enters for example "b" (for back), the shell would then skip so many line #'s back in the script to where the previous question was asked. Any other ideas?
Thanks for any help,
Mike
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NAME
sysprofile - modular centralized shell configuration
DESCRIPTION
sysprofile is a generic approach to configure shell settings in a modular and centralized way mostly aimed at avoiding work for lazy sysad-
mins. It has only been tested to work with the bash shell.
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other than that the scripts need to have a .bash suffix to enable automagic sourcing by /etc/sysprofile.
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For using "sysprofile" under X11, one can source it in a similar way from /etc/X11/Xsession or your X display manager's Xsession file to
provide the same shell environment as under the console in X11. See the example files in /usr/share/doc/sysprofile/ for illustration.
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which may contain a user's own version of any configuration file to be sourced instead of the system default. It's names have just to
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There are no options other than those dictated by shell conventions. Anything is defined within the configuration scripts themselves.
SEE ALSO
The README files and configuration examples contained in /etc/sysprofile.d/ and the manual pages bash(1), xdm(1x), xdm.options(5), and
wdm(1x). Recommended further reading is everything related with shell programming.
If you need a similar mechanism for executing code at logout time check out the related package syslogout(8) which is a very close compan-
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BUGS
sysprofile in its current form is mainly restricted to bash(1) syntax. In fact it is actually a rather embarrassing quick and dirty hack
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