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
Hi all
Does anyone have a script that will allow me to stop inside a while read loop.
I want to pause the loop until a enter is pressed.
e.g.
While read line
do
echo something
if LINECOUNT > 40
then
read ENTER?"PRESS ENTER TO CONT..."
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hi, i will like to know whether awk command can ignore case?
i written a script that will take in user input and search for data on the 1st field from a text file.
echo -n "Title:"
read title
awk -F":" '$1~/'"$title"'/{print $0}' Filename
read ans
return
... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am new to writing script and want to use a Bash Piped while-read and read from user input.
if something happens on server.log then do while loop or if something happend on user input then do while loop.
Pseudocode something like:
tail -n 3 -f server.log | while read serverline || read... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am working on a script, which requests users to enter input.
Ex: read -p "Please enter your email id:" email
I don't want users skipping this entry, this has to be mandatory.I dont want to proceed without input.
I can do a check if variable $email is empty and proceed if not.But, i... (7 Replies)
Hi,
This query is a part of a much more lengthy script.
I wish to look for all the files in a folder named "data" which in this case has two files i.e. plan.war and agent.properties. For all the files found under data I wish to ask the user as to where they wish copy the files to.
Below,... (14 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Need your guidance for case statement. I tried many way but no success yet.Now my existing code is doing something like below. Each Line of the input file contains one test case.#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
while read LINE; do
do COMMAND
done < $FILE
Now I want to modify the code... (6 Replies)
I'm having an issue with bash read input when using a case statement.
The script halts and doesn't read the input on the first loop. if I hit enter then the scripts starts to respond as expected. Need some help here.
defaultans=8hrs
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
tasksel
TASKSEL(8) Debian specific manpage TASKSEL(8)NAME
tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks
SYNOPSIS
tasksel install <task>
tasksel remove <task>
tasksel [options]
DESCRIPTION
tasksel shows all available tasks and allows to user to select ones to install
OPTIONS -t, --test
test mode; don't actually install or remove packeges
--new-install
automatically select some tasks without even displaying them to the user; default other tasks to on; used during new Debian installs.
--list-tasks
list on stdout the tasks that would be displayed in the tasksel interface
--task-packages task
lists on stdout the packages that are available and part of the given task
Note that this option may be given more than once.
--task-desc task
outputs the extended description of the given task
--debconf-apt-from waypoint
Start the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
--debconf-apt-to waypoint
End the debconf-apt-progress bar here.
--debconf-apt-progress options
Pass the specified options to the debconf-apt-progress command that tasksel runs. These will be appended to any --from and --to options
constructed by tasksel itself based on --debconf-apt-from and --debconf-apt-to options.
SEE ALSO dpkg(8), apt-get(8)FILES
/usr/share/tasksel/*.desc and /usr/local/share/tasksel/*.desc are used to define tasks.
AUTHOR
tasksel was written by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> and Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
HISTORY
This document first appeared with tasksel-1.0
2.88ubuntu8 2010-07-16 TASKSEL(8)