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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Menu driven Script needed ..pls help Post 302421755 by sasdua on Sunday 16th of May 2010 02:34:48 AM
Old 05-16-2010
Question Menu driven Script needed ..pls help
Hi Guys..

am new to unix scrpiting..I need a Menu need to create using shell scrpting

eg:
Food items
ready
paid


if i press "f" need to add items for a file food items..
if i press "r" it need to move into ready and remove from food items
if i press "p" need to update a filed in previous file as " sold" in ready file and need to add in paid file

Hotel---main scrpit..i need to pass values to this..i will maintain food items with id..so thti use tht to greping..i have a basic idea how can i do..but...stuck


Can any one suggest me how can i write this..i know it is complex one itself..If possible give me egs..i will try to write on my won..

Many thanks in advance
 

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alacarte

alacarte(1)							   User Commands						       alacarte(1)

NAME

       alacarte - GNOME Menu Editor

SYNOPSIS

       alacarte [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       alacarte provides a usable GUI for the users to easily add menu items, remove menu items, or otherwise modify the GNOME main menu.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-options       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/alacarte       Executable for GNOME Menu Editor

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-menu-editor	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-panel(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Irene Huang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    07 Nov 2007 						       alacarte(1)
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