You use 'read myVar' keyword to store the input from stdin (keyboard) into variable myVar. So you just need to read the input for each case. Now when you reference variable, that is when you are retrieving the information stored behind it, you use dollar sign, which you were missing in touch and rm commands.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Sample Script
VAR1=
echo "Choose an option: 1) Create a file. 2) Delete a file. 3) Move a file."
read VAR1
case $VAR1 in
1)
echo "Pick new file name."
read VAR2
touch $VAR2
;;
2)
echo "Pick name of file to delete:"
read VAR2
rm $VAR2
;;
3)
echo "Select Source File:"
read VAR2
echo "Select Destination:"
read VAR3
echo "Source is $VAR2 and destination $VAR3"
;;
*)
echo "Invalid option, please try again."
;;
esac
Please make sure your script is made executable only to the owner of the file,
Code:
chmod 744 script.sh
, since you don't really want all the world being able to execute 'rm' command...
thank you very much. i was hitting a and was starting to get frustrated.
I have created a script that prompts the user to enter three variables that are seperated by a space as the delimiter.
It then performs a command 3 seperate times for each variable entered.
I want the script to llow the user to enter as many variables as they may like and the script to... (5 Replies)
Hello!
For the moment some settings in my .bashrc contain the password of my company's firewall, which is not a good idea. I would like to use the string "PASSWORD" set in .bashrc and a script that changes all appearances of "PASSWORD" in the environment variables by the actual password (which... (4 Replies)
I am using variable to give the location of the file I am using but I get error.
Here is the code:
LogFile=/tmp/log.email
echo -e "could not close the service - error number $error \n" > $LogFile
well this is not all the code but is enough because the problem start when I try to use the... (3 Replies)
Hi all ,
I have a file with below data ,
bash#cat file.txt
user1 amount1 status1
user2 amount2 status2
user3 amount3 status3
user4 amount4 status4
.
.
.
Now i have a command to be executed with above values like below ,
./errorcheck -u user1 -a amount1 -s status1
... (3 Replies)
Hi all guys,
how you can read in thread title, I'm deploying a bash script in which I have to export some variables inside it.
But (I think you know) the export command works only inside the script and so, on exit command, the variables aren't set like I set inside the script.
Consequently in... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
i have a requirement where i have to run a script with at least 25 arguements and position of arguements can also change. the unapropriate way is like below. can we achieve this in more good and precise way??
#!/bin/ksh
##script is sample.ksh
age=$1
gender=$2
class=$3
.
.
.... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to dynamically set variables in a bash script. I made a naive attempt in a while loop that hopefully can clarify the idea.
n=0; echo "$lst" | while read p; do n=$(($n+1)); p"$n"="$p"; done
The error message is:
bash: p1=line1: command not found
bash: p2=line2: command... (8 Replies)
From the command line:
dions-air:scripts dion$ ls -l /Users/dion/Library/Application\ Support/Garmin/Devices/3816821036/History/2014-06-07-055251.TCX
-rw-r--r-- 1 dion staff 157934 7 Jun 06:55 /Users/dion/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Devices/3816821036/History/2014-06-07-055251.TCXworks... (2 Replies)
I have a file that has 2 fields called b_file:
11977 DAR.V3.20150209.1.CSV
3295 DAR.V3.20150209.1.CSV
1721 DAR.V2.20150210.1.CSV
I need to search a sftplog using the field 1, but want to maintain the relationship between field 1 and 2. I am passing field 1 as a parameter in a bash loop.
... (14 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
X=$(</home/cogiz/computerhand.txt) # (3S 8C 2H 6D QC 8S 4H 5H)
Y=$(</home/cogiz/topcardinplay.txt) # KS
A=( "${Y::1}" )
B=( "${Y:1}" )
for e in ${X}; do
if ]; then # searching for valid cards K,S or 8
... (0 Replies)
04-05-2011
and was starting to get frustrated.