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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Problems executing an interactive shell script Post 302985600 by Aia on Saturday 12th of November 2016 12:02:33 PM
Old 11-12-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Braveheart
[...]

Code:
#!/bin/bash

echo “Good Morning, Please enter your file type name for sorting [ENTER]:”
read file
if [[ “$file” == jpg ]]; then
     mv /Users/christopherdorman/desktop/unsorted/*.jpg /Users/christopherdorman/desktop/sorted
echo “Good News, Your files have been successfully processed” 
fi

Perhaps, the following might be a guide:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

echo "Good Morning, Please enter your file type name for sorting [ENTER]:"
read extension
mv  -v /Users/christopherdorman/desktop/unsorted/*.${extension} /Users/christopherdorman/desktop/sorted/
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Good News, Your files have been successfully processed"
fi

Last edited by Aia; 11-12-2016 at 03:00 PM.. Reason: s/extention/extension/g
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metacity-message

metacity-message(1)						   User Commands					       metacity-message(1)

NAME

       metacity-message - send messages to the desktop window manager

SYNOPSIS

       metacity-message [disable-keybindings] [enable-keybindings] [reload-theme] [restart] [toggle-verbose]

DESCRIPTION

       You  can  use  the  metacity-message application to communicate with the desktop window manager to perform the following tasks: restart the
       window manager, reload the current window border theme, enable and disable keybindings, and enable debugging messages.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       disable-keybindings     Disable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

       enable-keybindings      Enable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

       reload-theme	       Reload the current window border theme.

       restart		       Restart the desktop window manager.

       toggle-verbose	       Enable debugging messages for the desktop window manager.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Restarting the Window Manager

       example% metacity-message restart

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/metacity-message       Executable to communicate with the desktop window manager

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
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SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gnome-window-properties(1), metacity(1), metacity-theme-viewer(1), metacity-window-demo(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Sep 2004						       metacity-message(1)
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