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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Shell scripting/menu Post 302802571 by Jagst3r21 on Friday 3rd of May 2013 10:55:48 PM
Old 05-03-2013
Shell scripting/menu
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

Write a shell menu program that will:
a. copy a file to a designated directory
b. tell you if a specified user is logged in.
c. display the details of a specified file
d. list the contents of a specified directory

Check for input errors, issues an error message and continue until the exit option is chosen.

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:

Shell scripting

3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):

Code:
# Use of a case statement to offer a 5 item menu
echo “  Menu\n
1. Copy a file to a designated directory\n
2. Check whether a specified user is logged in\n
3. Display the details of a specified file\n
4. List the contents of a specified directory\n
5. Quit to Unix\nEnter your option #: \c”
read choice
case “$choice” in
1)	cp file $HOME
2)	who | grep 'name'
3)      ls -l file
4)      ls directory
5)      exit ;;
*)	echo “Invalid option”   # ;; not needed for last option
esac

A couple things:

1) Is this a step in the right direction? And could someone please test it just to see if it functions?

2) How would I make the program more portable so that the user can enter the name of a file for option one or enter the name of the person for option 2. What I mean is, how do you make it so you have variables for the options instead of hardcoded ones?

I need to also turn in a printout of the program listing or something too, whatever that means(?)

Thanks.

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):

Brookdale Community College - Lincroft, New Jersey - United States - Dr. Rick Bournique- COMP 145


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Last edited by vbe; 05-04-2013 at 11:01 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

tk_menubar

tk_menuBar(1T)						       Tk Built-In Commands						    tk_menuBar(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       tk_menuBar, tk_bindForTraversal - Obsolete support for menu bars

SYNOPSIS

       tk_menuBar frame ?menu menu ...?

       tk_bindForTraversal arg arg ...
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       These  procedures  were used in Tk 3.6 and earlier releases to help manage pulldown menus and to implement keyboard traversal of menus.	In
       Tk 4.0 and later releases they are no longer needed.  Stubs for these procedures have been retained for backward  compatibility,  but  they
       have no effect.	You should remove calls to these procedures from your code, since eventually the procedures will go away.

       From Tk 8.0 onwards, you should instead construct your menubar as a normal menu and then attach it to the toplevel of your choice using the
       -menu option of that widget.

SEE ALSO

       menu(1T), toplevel(1T)

KEYWORDS

       keyboard traversal, menu, menu bar, post

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tk																    tk_menuBar(1T)
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