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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple Unix Question Post 90624 by djt0506 on Thursday 24th of November 2005 01:34:13 PM
Old 11-24-2005
Simple Unix Question

Hi all,

ok here is my problem, my program below is reading lines in from a file (one at a time) and printing them out. my problem is that i want it to only print out 3 lines at a time on the screen, but the "read value" command in my code isnt working. Whats wrong? & what can i do to get this working?

Thanks all for you replies in advance.

IFS=^
clear
counter=0
file=$1
cat $file |
while read line
do
counter=`expr $counter + 1`
set $line
echo -e "\t\t------------------------------------------------"
echo -e "\t\t| Name: $1 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| Address : $2 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| $3 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| $4 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| PhoneNumber: $5 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| Fax Number: $6 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| E-mail: $7 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| Website: $8 \r\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|"
echo -e "\t\t| |"
echo -e "\t\t| o o |"
echo -e "\t\t------------------------------------------------"
echo " "

if [ $counter = 3 ]
then
echo "Hit Enter to continue..."
read value
fi
 

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echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int echo(void); int noecho(void); DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially, curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft- ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR. ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)
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