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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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NAME

       asadmin-version, version - displays theversion information

SYNOPSIS

       version	[--user  admin_user]  [--password  admin_password]  [--host  localhost]  [--port  4848]  [--secure  |-s] [--passwordfile filename]
       [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive] [--verbose=false]

       version displays the version information. If the command-line cannot communicate with the administration server with the  given	user/pass-
       word  and  host/port,  then  the  command-line  will  retrieve the Version locally and display a warning message. If the user option is not
       entered, the command-line will retrieve the version locally and display a warning message. The warning message will  not  be  displayed	if
       --terse option is entered on the command line.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

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