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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I need help writing this script Post 302516511 by nowruzr on Saturday 23rd of April 2011 05:50:11 PM
Old 04-23-2011
I got Date, Time, Today, and Letter to work right.
Now its time for Calendar and Files.
They both have a weird word wrap problem.
Also I wasn't able to incorporate the lowercase thing correctly, so if you could show me that that would be cool.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
clear

while [ "$ans" != "Exit" ]; do
    
    echo ".-----------------------------------------------------------------."
    echo "|                                        |"
    echo "|  Type in the following commands based on what you want to see:  |"
    echo "|                                                                 |"
    echo "|      Today - to see the day of the week                         |"
    echo "|      Date - to see the date                                     |"
    echo "|      Time - to see the time                                     |"
    echo "|      Files [path] - to show files and folders in that folder    |"
    echo "|      Calendar - to see the calendar                             |"
    echo "|      Letter - to open editor to write letters                   |"
    echo "|      Exit - to exit                                             |"
    echo "|                                                                 |"
    echo "'-----------------------------------------------------------------'"
    echo " "
    
    echo "Please type in your choice: **Case Sensitive**"
read ans ans2
if [ "$ans" = "Today" ]; then
clear
echo " "
echo `date +%A`
echo " "
elif [ "$ans" = "Date" ]; then
clear
echo " "
echo `date +%D`
echo " "
elif [ "$ans" = "Time" ]; then
clear
echo " "
echo `date +%r`
echo " "

elif [ "$ans" = "Files" ]; then
clear
echo " "
echo `ls -l $ans2`
echo " "

elif [ "$ans" = "Calendar" ]; then
clear
echo " "
echo `Cal`
echo " "

elif [ "$ans" = "Letter" ]; then
clear
echo " "
echo " "
`open /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2008/Microsoft\ Word.app/`
echo " "

else
clear
echo " "
echo "Error: Not an Option"
echo " "
fi
done
clear


Last edited by Scott; 04-23-2011 at 07:19 PM.. Reason: Please use CODE tags for CODE (not quote tags)
 

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