Shell Programming and Scripting

Can you run the script using ksh instead of bash? and if so, do you get the same results?

When you run "install" manually, what keystrokes do you press ?
For example do you press y<return> or just y ?
Can you typeahead when answering the questions manually?

more importantly...to me, at least...what does this loop look like within the install script? Is it maybe allowing for a break, or similar...?

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The keystrokes are in the list. y, n, Return key, string. It seems the first 2 responses that are y are accepted and processed. When it hits the return/blank line in gets lost.

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The line that seems to be causing the problem in the install scroipt is:

more docs/env.txt

Manually, you need to page through the display.

In AIX and HPUX with the here-now playing on blank line is interperted as a return and it plays the entire file.

In Linux, the blank line in the here-now behaves differently.

can you modify the install script to allow for an interrupt? Like:

Code:

more docs/env.txt 2>/dev/null

The script is a vendor script. I'm trying to avoid modifying it.

One of my friends here told me to change the script to use cat instead of more. So this line:

more docs/env.txt

changed to:

cat docs/env.txt

Seems to work.

It's displaying a supported environment list that I really don't need in a scripted install but I really want to not have to remember to change the install script every time I get a new version.

IF you're only going to run install within the outer script (ie, . ./install)...and not retain any environment settings afterward AND install isn't launching it's own shell within...you might just alias more to be cat early on in your outer script, and then unalias it before you'd exit (ie, alias more='cat' ... unalias more; exit ).

This might force the inner script to follow the alias, and not require any manual edits to the vendor script...

Lemme know...I'm curious. Should equate to something like the following example:

Code:

$ print $(alias more='cat' ;more file.cpy |head ;unalias more ) |sed "s/ \//\n/g"