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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Generating a list of choices in a menu Post 95018 by vgersh99 on Thursday 5th of January 2006 03:58:53 PM
Old 01-05-2006
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

hosts='/tmp/hosts.txt'
PS3="Pick one of the above: "

select i in $(< ${hosts})
do
      [ $i ] && print "you picked->[${i}]" || print -u2 'invalid selection'
      clear
      ssh -X ${i}
      nl -s') ' "${hosts}"
done

 

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BBHOSTSHOW(1)						      General Commands Manual						     BBHOSTSHOW(1)

NAME
bbhostshow - output the full bb-hosts file SYNOPSIS
bbhostshow [--bbdisp] [--bbnet] [filename] DESCRIPTION
bbhostshow(1) dumps the full bb-hosts file to stdout. It follows "include" tags in the bb-hosts files, and prints the full contents as seen by the bbgen(1) and bbtest-net(1) utilities. If no filename is given, bbhostshow displays the file pointed to by the BBHOSTS environment variable. OPTIONS
--bbdisp Show the bb-hosts file following include statements as a BBDISPLAY server would. --bbnet Show the bb-hosts file following include statements as a BBNET server would. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
BBHOSTS Filename for the bb-hosts(5) file. SEE ALSO
bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5) Xymon Version 4.2.3: 4 Feb 2009 BBHOSTSHOW(1)
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