You can use break to get out of a while loop without exiting the entire script.
Use function when you do some tasks many times.
By the way, here is a sample of your code with some little improvment
If we want to exit, there already is a choice in the menu, so .... the following lines are useless (and even bad for the workflow of query)
It's me again :)
I would like to create a script that will display a 'Main Menu' which will link to other scripts in the same directory. Is it possible to have a scrolling menu and pretty colours for this? :) (9 Replies)
I'm working on a script for a basic menu with four options. The first option for the menu asks a user to put in anyone's user name and is supposed to display the user's home directory. If a user does not enter a name, then their own home directory should be displayed. The second menu option is... (0 Replies)
So, I need help writing a Menu script in UNIX.
First how can I use letters for the options instead of numbers?
Also, is there any templates out on the web I can use? (2 Replies)
The code im having problems with is highlighted in red, upon selecting option 2 on the main menu (highlighted green) my echo "NETWORK CONNECTIVITY" command seems to get overlooked and the resulting output is "Thank you for using the Operator Administrative Tool." being displayed. Can anyone tell me... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to have a shell script for the below need.
1. Menu with one heading and 4 options.
2. the heading and 4 options are taken from a file.
File entry
======
Heading1|option1|option2|option3|option4|
Heading2|option1|option2|option3|option4|
3. the user entries must be captured in... (9 Replies)
Hi!
I have created on script which is working fine with menu options and with a sub-menu.
I want to enhance it by using sub-options under menu options.
Like.
option 1) will give the list only.
option 1.1) should give the option to user to choose one file, whose content user wanna see. ... (3 Replies)
hi all i am a newbie to this
is there any examples on creating a main menu with 3 sub menu
main menu -> option a , b and c
a menu -> option 1 ,2 and 3
b menu -> option 1 ,2
c menu -> option 1 ,2
i am getting headache as my code kept getting unexpected EOF
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I installed CentOS 8 with Gnome 3.28.2 and I noticed that the "switch user" menu item disappeared from under the system menu of Gnome classic (Both X11 & Wayland). I checked google and this problem seems to have a history going back several releases of Gnome.
Unfortunately, I never found a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bodisha
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
noecho
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)