how to test input variable is a string in a select loop
Okay -- I hope I ask this correctly.
I'm working on my little shell script to write vendor names and aliases to files from user input. If a user choose to add to a file, he can do that as well. I'm using a select loop for this function to list all the possible files the user can choose from. Here is the code I have so far
Code:
echo
PS3='FILE YOU WANT TO MODIFY: '
options
echo
echo ADD DATA TO FILE: FILES IN THE VENDORLIST FOLDER
echo
select file in $(ls ~/vendorlists) #uses file as the variable for the chosen file and lists all the files in the VENDORLIST folder
do
echo
open ~/vendorlists/$file
break
done
The user can enter P to go back to the previous menu, E to exit the script entirely, or M to go back to the main menu.
the open statement is temporary just so I could see if the function would even open the file. My problem is that when I tried using a case statement inside the select loop to test if the user entered P, E or M, then nothing happened. I know the select statement puts the files in a list and asks for which one the user wants. But how do I test to see if the user's choice is a P, E or M and take the appropriate action, or is in not possible to do that with the select statement? My guess is that with the select statement the variable is an integer and not a string. So can I test to see if the variable is an string or not, and if so, how?
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while test 1 -eq 1
do
read a
$a
if test $a = stop
then
break
fi
done
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