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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Something is wrong with this switch( case statement. Post 302469506 by snakemasterAK on Saturday 6th of November 2010 05:35:20 PM
Old 11-06-2010
Text editor

No, I used nano, although I did copy and paste some of it into TextEdit before moving it back along.
here is the actual error message:
/bin/cammenu: line 14: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
/bin/cammenu: line 14: ` 1)'

---------- Post updated at 01:35 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:01 PM ----------

alright. I redid all of the spacing and finally managed to get it to work. here it is fixed...
I am still making other modifications, but the case thing works now. thanks for the idea.
code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while :
do
echo "-----Menu for Camera Save Script-----"
echo " Main Menu "
echo "-------------------------------------"
echo "[1] Save to dir: Todays date/time"
echo "[2] Save files custom dir: "
echo "[5] Exit/Stop"
echo "======================="
echo -n "Enter your menu choice [1,2,5]: "
read yourch
  case "$yourch" in
1)
    mkdir $HOME/Pictures/`date +%d_%m_%H%M`
    mv /Volumes/SpyCam/_REC/100MEDIA/* $HOME/Pictures/`date +%d_%m_%H%M`
    ;;
2)
    echo "Enter Name of New Dir: "
    read `newdir`
    mkdir $HOME/Pictures/$newdir/
    mv /Volumes/SpyCam/_REC/100MEDIA/* $HOME/Pictures/$newdir/
    ;;
5)
    exit 0
    ;;
*)
    echo "No try 1, 2 or 5."
    echo "Press a key. . ."                                                      
    read
    ;;
  esac
done


Last edited by snakemasterAK; 11-06-2010 at 06:41 PM.. Reason: I found the Code tag...
 

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echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int echo(void); int noecho(void); DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially, curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft- ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR. ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)
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