05-07-2013
Jagst3r21
Your approach presents your menu to the user only once and if he has not selected to exit then it goes on to loop infinitely.
The proper approach should be to loop the menu too so that once you have served the users request for the first time you again go back to the user to get his input and ask him whether he wants to quit if yes then get out of the loop
And also you dont need to have ;; in every line within case statement .Search for some case examples I am sure you will come to know what is going wrong in your script
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smd-loop
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NAME
smd-loop - iterates smd-pull and smd-push
SYNOPSIS
smd-loop [-vt]
DESCRIPTION
smd-loop runs smd-push and smd-pull at regular intervals as defined by the user in the ~/.smd/loop configuration file. On errors that are
reported to be transient, it retries a second time before failing.
The configuration file is line-oriented. Each line is composed of three space separated fields: pull-frequency, push-frequency and end-
point-name. Frequencies are expressed in minutes, while endpoint name is a valid name for smd-pull(1) and smd-push(1). Lines beginning with
# are considered as comments. The following example calls the command smd-pull default every 3 minutes, and smd-push default every 10.
Example:
# pull-frequency push-frequency endpoint-name
3 10 default
OPTIONS
-v Increase program verbosity (printed on stderr)
-t Just create a template configuration file if none
FILES
~/.smd/loop
SEE ALSO
mddiff(1), smd-server(1), smd-client(1), smd-push(1), smd-pull(1)
AUTHOR
Enrico Tassi <gares@fettunta.org>
11 June 2012 smd-loop(1)