Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody,

Im trying to make a MENU to be showed in the screen but hoy i can draw the marc in a specific position?

for example, i want as marc:

************************
* *
* *
* *
* *
************************

but when i draw something into it i have:

************************
* title *
* word longs *
* word *
* bottom *
************************

and the right line get ugly.
im using just 'echo "*********" ' into the script

plz your help

Code:

printf '************************\n'
printf "* title%17s\n" "*"
printf "* world longs%11s\n" "*"

Or better yet:

Code:

cat <<EOF
************************
* title                *
* word longs           *
* word                 *
* bottom               *
************************
EOF

But is there a way to use as in C the command gotoxy?

#define gotoxy ????

You would have to do that by yourself: write a shell function which gets two parameters (x and y coords) and then uses "tput" to put the cursor to the designated line/column. This should be feasible, but only with a finite amount of effort.

bakunin