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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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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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