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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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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       The  fdutilsconfig script provides an interactive way to configure the suid bit of the fdmount(1) binary.  It asks you some questions, give
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       When upgrading the Debian fdutils package, the suid bit information stored in /etc/fdmount.conf is used to tell the new fdmount	binary	to
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FILES

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