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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Shell scripting/menu Post 302803037 by Don Cragun on Monday 6th of May 2013 12:27:50 AM
Old 05-06-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagst3r21
I stripped it down to this:

Code:
# Use of a case statement to offer a 5 item menu
echo "  Menu\n
1. Copy a file to a designated directory\n
5. Quit to Unix\nEnter your option #: \c"
 
read choice
 
case "$choice" in
while true
do
1)      echo " Chose a file to be copied to your /etc directory;;
       read filename;;
       cp $filename /etc;;
done
5)      exit ;;
*)      echo "Invalid option"   # ;; not needed for last option
esac

but I am getting ./example: 8: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

any ideas?
I suggested some ideas in message #8 in this thread. It doesn't look like you considered anything I posted there, and the problems you're showing here seem to be the same as the problems you had then.

Is this really an exact copy of the script you ran when you got the error message above? I would have expected it to complain about line 9 instead of line 8 with the code you listed above.
 

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XmAddToPostFromList(library call)										 XmAddToPostFromList(library call)

NAME
XmAddToPostFromList -- a RowColumn function that makes a menu accessible from more than one widget SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/RowColumn.h> void XmAddToPostFromList( Widget menu, Widget post_from_widget); DESCRIPTION
XmAddToPostFromList makes a menu accessible from more than one widget. After a menu is once created, this function may be used to make that menu accessible from a second widget. The process may be repeated indefinitely. In other words, where an application would use XmCreatePop- upMenu or XmCreatePulldownMenu or their equivalent to create a new menu identical to one that already exists, it can use this function to reuse that earlier menu. If menu refers to a Popup menu, then the post_from_widget widget can now pop up the specified menu. The actual posting of the menu occurs as it always does, either through an event handler, or the automatic popup menu support (see the XmRowColumn(3) reference page). If menu refers to a Pulldown menu, its ID is placed in the XmNsubMenuId resource of the specified post_from_widget. In this case, the post_from_widget widget must be either a CascadeButton or a CascadeButtonGadget. Note that this function manipulates the internal structures themselves, not a copy of them. menu Specifies the ID of the RowColumn widget containing the menu (Popup or Pulldown) to be made accessible from the widget. post_from_widget Specifies the widget ID of the widget which will now be able to post the menu specified by menu. For a complete definition of RowColumn and its associated resources, see XmRowColumn(3). RELATED
XmGetPostedFromWidget(3), XmRemoveFromPostFromList(3), and XmRowColumn(3). XmAddToPostFromList(library call)
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