12-06-2005
simple shell script problem
hi all. i have a little problem. im basically reading input from the user from the keyboard into the variable "phonenumber". I want to do a little error check to check if the user doesnt enter anything in for the value phonenumber.
i had this:
read phonenumber
if [ $phonenumber=" " ]
then
.....
else
.....
fi
but thatjust performs then instructions in between "then" and "else", but not "else" and "fi". any ideas?
thanks all in advance for your help.
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NAME
vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty
SYNOPSIS
vboxputty -d device [-f config-file] [-c phonenumber] [-s ring-timeout] [-w wait] [-t redial] [-r redial-pause]
vboxputty [-hv]
DESCRIPTION
vboxputty is a vboxgetty, not waiting for, but triggering a call. After connect, vboxputty is acting exactly like vboxgetty. vboxputty
exits with 0 if a connection was established, 99 on BUSY.
OPTIONS
-h display a short help
-v display the version information
-f config-file
use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf
-d device
use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout
-c phonenumber
the phonenumber to be called
-s ring-timeout
vboxputty will dial the phonenumber and wait ring-timeout seconds for the called party to accept the call, if ring-timeout seconds
are ellapsed before connect, vboxputty will hangup.
-w wait
after the connection is established, vboxputty will wait wait seconds before starting the tcl-script
-t redial
if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to get a connect
-r redial-pause
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FILES
/usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf
AUTHOR
Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>
SEE ALSO
the vbox-documentation
4th Berkeley Distribution 13. January 2000 VBOXPUTTY(8)