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05-15-2010

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Please help with this script.

Hi guys,

I am very much a new unix user so please be nice.

I have a problem that I am trying to solve and I hope you can help.

I am trying to create a script that asks a user to make a choice of his favoritre sweets from a menu of 3. The user then must choose from 3 .txt files to recieve further information. unitll he chooses the appropriate .txt file in accordance to the sweet he will recieve an error msg.

So...

The program displays a menu asking the user to choose from three different sweets. (Snickers, Twix and bounty).

Code:

echo 
echo "1) $Sweet1"
echo 
echo "2) $Sweet2"
echo 
echo "3) $Sweet3"
echo   

echo "Please enter the code of your chosen module: \c"
read SWEET_CHOICE

while [ $SWEET_CHOICE != $sweet1 ] && [ $SWEET_CHOICE != $sweet2 ] && [ $SWEET_CHOICE != $sweet3 ]
do
echo ""
echo "Invalid choice. Please enter your chosen sweet again:"
read SWEET_CHOICE

Once I have an appropriate choice stored in the variable SWEET_CHOICE. I need the program to display three file names (Already created called snickers twix bounty) after the user types the file name, if the file name is correct the contents will be displayed. If the user types the wrong file the program will promt for him/her to try again untill they pick the appropriate file.

Any help with this second part would be hugely appreciated. I would appreciate any ideas in script or in theory, so dont hessitate to shout at me for being stupid!

Kind regards

Si

Last edited by Scott; 05-15-2010 at 09:59 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags

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pct-scanner-script

PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)					      General Commands Manual					     PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)

NAME

       pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving

SYNOPSIS

       pct-scanner-script [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       pct-scanner-script  is  a  bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu
       PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different  configurations  can  be  defined,
       making it easy to switch between configurations.

       Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples.

       Features:
	 - auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files
	 - auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails
	 - cascading configuration system, for easy customizing
	 - easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options
	 - archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners
	 - built for productivity and daily use
	 - uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools
	 - multilanguage commandline output

OPTIONS

       -h, --help, -?
	      Show summary of options, help, and examples.

DEBUGGING

       This  program  is  a  helper  script  to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this
       script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools.

SEE ALSO

       scanadf(1),

AUTHOR

       pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by:
	      Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>.

								  March 31, 2009					     PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)