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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sub arguments to shell script Post 302700031 by aqua9 on Wednesday 12th of September 2012 10:28:00 PM
Old 09-12-2012
Sorry typo there.

---------- Post updated at 09:47 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:43 PM ----------

I tried echo 1 | test.sh ,noticed it kept going into an infinite loop of trying to display the next lines of code and eventually stopped at the Command line :
however echo q | test.sh did quit the script as expected...

---------- Post updated at 10:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:47 PM ----------

-added some more detail on the function main_screen i have

$all_queues populates values from anoter folder /queue/queue_1 , /queues/queue_2 etc.

upon running the script i get the above values with number 1 -23 for each queue based on which i made my selection of 1 or 2 at the Command prompt and got the next output

--test.sh
Code:
main_screen()
{
typeset count
typeset space
typeset device
typeset list
typeset tmp
 
clear
 
while :
do
print "View queue space ..."
print
 
count=0
for device in $all_devices
do
eval set -- \$device_$device
 
for space in $*
do
eval "tmp=\"\$pages_$space\""; 
printf "%2d - %16s : %-20s %6d pages\n" \
$((count+=1)) $device $space $tmp
list="$list $device:$space"
done
done
print
print "1)all - affect all queues"
print "q)uit - Return to main menu"
print
print -n "Command: "
 
read reply
 
case $reply in
a* ) while operate_all
do
: 
done 
 
return 0 ;;
q* ) return 1 ;;
esac
 
set -- $list
 
reply=$(eval print \${$reply} 2>/dev/null)
 
if [[ -n $reply ]]
then
device=${reply%%:*}
space=${reply##*:}
 
while operate_space $device $space 
do
:
done
 
return 0
else
clear
print "\nInvalid selection - please re-enter\n"
fi
done
}

Last edited by Franklin52; 09-13-2012 at 05:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
 

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btape

BTAPE(8)					     Network backup, recovery and verification						  BTAPE(8)

NAME

	btape - Bacula's Tape interface test program

SYNOPSIS

       btape [options] device-name

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the btape command.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -?     Show summary of options and commands.

       -b bootstrap
	      Specify a bootstrap file.

       -c config
	      Specify configuration file.

       -d nn  Set debug level to nn.

       -p     Proceed inspite of I/O errors.

       -s     No signals (for debugging).

       -v     Set verbose mode.

COMMANDS

       autochanger
	      test autochanger

       bsf    backspace file

       bsr    backspace record

       cap    list device capabilities

       clear  clear tape errors

       eod    go to end of Bacula data for append

       eom    go to the physical end of medium

       fill   fill tape, write onto second volume

       unfill read filled tape

       fsf    forward space a file

       fsr    forward space a record

       help   print this reference

       label  write a Bacula label to the tape

       load   load a tape

       quit   quit btape

       rawfill
	      use write() to fill tape

       readlabel
	      read and print the Bacula tape label

       rectest
	      test record handling functions

       rewind rewind the tape

       scan   read() tape block by block to EOT and report

       scanblocks
	      Bacula read block by block to EOT and report

       status print tape status

       test   General test Bacula tape functions

       weof   write an EOF on the tape

       wr     write a single Bacula block

       rr     read a single record

       rb     read a single bacula block

       qfill  quick fill command

SEE ALSO

       bscan(1), bextract(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>.

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