What if something else is entered, i.e. not a number? Consider also a wildcard option for your case statement:-
Code:
case this in
a) x=1 ;;
b) x=2 ;;
c) x=3 ;;
*) echo "Invalid" ;;
esac
I thinks that select is working as designed. It is simple enough and work, but not that flexible, however I am very happy to use it. Perhaps you could allow any input and then work on the choice outside of the select loop, just calling it to display your menu.
I have a file containing a list of references and I want to run a script that will make the same action for each reference.
The input file changes every hour, it's why I want to use a script that can read in a file, record by record, and run a specific action for the reference readed.
Thanks... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I have a quick question about the select command in ksh. I am using it to define a menu for user selection, I have found that the REPLY var contains the input from the user, I was interested to find out if there is a system variable that contains the whole menu as an array, the... (2 Replies)
Trying to create a script in BASH that would ask the user to enter another user name making sure the input is not blank before they hit enter then to check the home directory of that user does exist, I have the check folder sorted it's just the loop to make sure the user has entered chars (5 Replies)
Hey,
examples of the input (text line):
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/blabla.rar
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/blabla23124.bin
/bla/bla/bla/bla/bla/bla.bin
and what I need to do is extract/select only the dir path so the output would be:
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/... (4 Replies)
Okay -- I hope I ask this correctly.
I'm working on my little shell script to write vendor names and aliases to files from user input. If a user choose to add to a file, he can do that as well. I'm using a select loop for this function to list all the possible files the user can choose from.... (7 Replies)
Hi All
I am using the below code to chose a file to view :
PS3="Select file to view : "
select FILE in `ls` QUIT
do
if ; then
clear
cat $FILE
else
break
fi
REPLY=''
done
Everything works fine as long as I am giving the correct choice .
But when i give a... (4 Replies)
Hello everyone,
A simple question which may have a suggested solution:
I am using, and loving, the select command in a ksh93 script on AIX 6.1 to present users with menus.
I have been successful in controlling all of key input by the users, I still have an issue with the RETURN key. When the... (4 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have the below feed file named abc1.txt in which you can see there is a title and below is the respective values in the rows and it is completely pipe delimited file ,.
... (3 Replies)
A lot of my scripting makes use of the 'select' command to create menu driven input. A typical example of how I use it is as:
somevar=''
PS3='Select one: '
while ]; do
select somevar in $(sqlplus -s $dbuser/$dbpw@mydb <<EOF
set echo off feedback off verify off... (7 Replies)
Hi
I'm using the "select" command in the global_env.sh to log in to the application directory. This file is called in .bashrc profile.
Sample code:
Filename: global_env.sh
set -o vi
export severname=$(uname -n)
printf '%s\n%30s\n%s\n' "***********************" "Welcome to $severname"... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cheers799
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cd-hit-para
CD-HIT-PARA.PL(1) User Commands CD-HIT-PARA.PL(1)NAME
cd-hit-para.pl - divide a big clustering job into pieces to run cd-hit or cd-hit-est jobs
SYNOPSIS
cd-hit-para.pl options
DESCRIPTION
This script divide a big clustering job into pieces and submit jobs to remote computers over a network to make it parallel. After
all the jobs finished, the script merge the clustering results as if you just run a single cd-hit or cd-hit-est.
You can also use it to divide big jobs on a single computer if your computer does not have enough RAM (with -L option).
Requirements:
1 When run this script over a network, the directory where you
run the scripts and the input files must be available on all the remote hosts with identical path.
2 If you choose "ssh" to submit jobs, you have to have
passwordless ssh to any remote host, see ssh manual to know how to set up passwordless ssh.
3 I suggest to use queuing system instead of ssh,
I currently support PBS and SGE
4 cd-hit cd-hit-2d cd-hit-est cd-hit-est-2d
cd-hit-div cd-hit-div.pl must be in same directory where this script is in.
Options
-i input filename in fasta format, required
-o output filename, required
--P program, "cd-hit" or "cd-hit-est", default "cd-hit"
--B filename of list of hosts,
requred unless -Q or -L option is supplied
--L number of cpus on local computer, default 0
when you are not running it over a cluster, you can use this option to divide a big clustering jobs into small pieces, I suggest you
just use "--L 1" unless you have enough RAM for each cpu
--S Number of segments to split input DB into, default 64
--Q number of jobs to submit to queue queuing system, default 0
by default, the program use ssh mode to submit remote jobs
--T type of queuing system, "PBS", "SGE" are supported, default PBS
--R restart file, used after a crash of run
-h print this help
More cd-hit/cd-hit-est options can be speicified in command line
Questions, bugs, contact Weizhong Li at liwz@sdsc.edu
cd-hit-para.pl 4.6-2012-04-25 April 2012 CD-HIT-PARA.PL(1)