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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dynamic case creation based on output list from a command Post 302655751 by Lem on Wednesday 13th of June 2012 04:58:49 PM
Old 06-13-2012
Hi!

IMHO if you could use bash instead of sh, there would be a trivial solution using select instead of case:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
INSTANCE=""
while [[ $INSTANCE = "" ]]; do
    echo "DB2 INSTANCE PROFILER UTILITY"
    echo "Please enter the number of the instance you want to profile:"
    select INSTANCE in $(db2ilist); do
         if [[ $INSTANCE = "" ]]; then
              echo "Please enter a valid number. Retry."
         else {
              . /dbhome/${INSTANCE}/sqllib/db2profile
              db2 get instance; }
          fi
          break
          done
     done
exit 0

I don't think it's possible to do it dinamically with case.
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