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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why menu won't allow 2 character input? Post 302908819 by wisecracker on Thursday 10th of July 2014 01:45:33 PM

07-10-2014

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With a few corrections just the loop only the square brackets are not used when using dedicated letters or pseudo-numbers...
The second 'read' is not really necessary.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
loop=y
while test $loop = "y"
do
clear
tput cup 3 12; echo "Select Path for Top 25 Folder Sizes."
tput cup 4 12; echo "===================================="
tput cup 6 9; echo " 1 = /path/to/dir1"
tput cup 7 9; echo " 2 = /path/to/dir1/subdir1"
tput cup 8 9; echo "10 = /path/to/dir1/subdir2"
tput cup 9 9; echo "11 = /path/to/dir1/subdir3"
tput cup 10 9; echo " Q = Quit"
tput cup 12 9; echo "Selection:"
tput cup 12 19;
read choice || continue
case $choice in
	1) path="/path/to/dir1" ;;
	2) path="/path/to/dir1/subdir1" ;;
	10) path="/path/to/dir1/subdir2" ;;
	11) path="/path/to/dir1/subdir3" ;;
	[Qq]) clear ; exit ;;
	*)tput cup 14 9; echo "Invalid Selection..." ; path="" ;;
esac
echo $path
sleep 3
done

Last edited by wisecracker; 07-10-2014 at 02:53 PM..

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dh_installmenu

DH_INSTALLMENU(1)						     Debhelper							 DH_INSTALLMENU(1)

NAME
       dh_installmenu - install Debian menu files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS
       dh_installmenu [debhelperoptions] [-n]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build
       directories.

       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands are
       inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).

FILES
       debian/package.menu
	   Debian menu files, installed into usr/share/menu/package in the package build directory. See menufile(5) for its format.

       debian/package.menu-method
	   Debian menu method files, installed into etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory.

OPTIONS
       -n, --no-scripts
	   Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7) update-menus(1) menufile(5)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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