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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions How to read user keyboard input inside the case? Post 302728375 by Yoda on Wednesday 7th of November 2012 05:46:39 PM
Old 11-07-2012
I tried with following modification and able to read user input and print them:-

Code:
#!/bin/sh
clear
echo "\t `date "+%d/%m/%Y"`"
echo "\t Hostname Machine: `hostname`"
echo "\t user: `whoami` "
echo "\t M A I N - M E N U"
echo "\t 1.Copey Directory Tree"
echo "\t 2.Delete Files or Directories"
echo "\t 3.Output Information"

while true ; do
        echo -n "\t Please enter an option [ 1 - 4 ] : "
        read opt

        case "$opt" in
                1) echo "Enter the source and destination for copying files"
                   read src
                   read dest
                   echo "$src"
                   echo "$dest"
                   ;;
                2)  ;;
                3) echo "\t the number of possible users on the system: `cat /etc/passwd |wc -l` \n\t the number of current user on the system : `who | wc -l`\n\t the number of processes running: `ps -e | wc -l`"  ;;
                *) exit ;;
        esac
done

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dtadvfs

dtadvfs(8)						      System Manager's Manual							dtadvfs(8)

NAME

       dtadvfs - Starts the AdvFS graphical user interface

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/X11/dtadvfs [options] [-N] [-C hostname]

OPTIONS

       Turns off information messages about starting up the

       asemgr  utility.   This	message  is displayed at startup and whenever  the file system configuration is changed when the system is running
       TruCluster  Software.  Connects to other hosts that are running the AdvFS GUI daemon, advfsd.

OPERANDS

       Uses the standard X Windows options. See the X(1X) and xterm(1X) reference pages for information.

DESCRIPTION

       The AdvFS graphical user interface (GUI) organizes  AdvFS functionality into system management tasks and makes them  available	through  a
       graphical interface.

       Issue  the  dtadvfs  command to display the AdvFS GUI  Main window. This window serves as both the starting point for all AdvFS GUI-managed
       tasks and as a monitor for file-system status. When the Main window is displayed,  disk-space usage information is shown for the  host  and
       file domains.

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