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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Menu using shell script Post 302596106 by gary_w on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:30:34 PM
Old 02-06-2012
Well I thought this dynamic menu was going to be a simple example of looping through the input file that holds the menu structure, parsing the menu options line, then using the ksh select construct to prompt, but my select construct is not prompting and instead seems to be taking the input from the while loop read. Can anyone spot why this is happening? ksh93 on Solaris by the way. I thought maybe it was IFS but even if I reset it inside the main loop the same happens.

I recently posted an example of nested menus: https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...#post302595280 but this version differs with reading from the input file.

The menu input file called dynmenu.dat:
Code:
Heading1|h1_option1|h1_option2|h1_option3|h1_option4|
Heading2|h2_option1|h2_option2|h2_option3|h2_option4|
Heading3|h3_option1|h3_option2|h3_option3|h3_option4|

The script called dynmenu:
Code:
#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh

typeset -r -x DYNMENUFILE=${0}.dat  # Menu file
typeset -r MAINPROMPT="Enter your selection: "
typeset -x PS3=$MAINPROMPT  # PS3 is the prompt for the select construct.
typeset -r RESPONSEFILE="${0}_${USER}.out"

> $RESPONSEFILE  # Create or clear the response file.

# Read lines from the menu file.
while IFS="|" read heading option1_in option2_in option3_in option4_in the_rest
do
  #  Loop until a correct answer is received.
  while :
  do
#    clear
    print "\n$heading\n"
    select option in $option1_in $option2_in $option3_in $option4_in
    do
      case $REPLY in   # REPLY is set by the select construct,
                       # and is the number of the selection.
        1) ;&  # Fall through
        2) ;&  # Fall through
        3) ;&  # Fall through
        4) print "${heading}: $option" >> $RESPONSEFILE
           break  # Break out 2 levels (get the next menu line)
           ;;
        *) # Always code for the unexpected.
           print "\nUnknown option [${REPLY}]"
           sleep 2
           break # redisplay the current menu
           ;;
      esac
    done  # End select
  done  # End while true
done < $DYNMENUFILE

exit 0

I get the menu for line 1 as expected, but immediately get the unknown option error with the reply being the entire line 2 from the file, etc.
Output:
Code:
$ dynmenu

Heading1

1) h1_option1
2) h1_option2
3) h1_option3
4) h1_option4

Unknown option [Heading2|h2_option1|h2_option2|h2_option3|h2_option4|]

Heading1

1) h1_option1
2) h1_option2
3) h1_option3
4) h1_option4

Unknown option [Heading3|h3_option1|h3_option2|h3_option3|h3_option4|]

Heading1

1) h1_option1
2) h1_option2
3) h1_option3
4) h1_option4

Heading1

1) h1_option1
2) h1_option2
3) h1_option3
4) h1_option4

Heading1

1) h1_option1
2) h1_option2
3) h1_option3
4) h1_option4

(Repeats until CTRL-C)

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