Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks for the info pludi. There was reference to CAT instead of cat and once it was changed the script worked.

Thanks <3

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The next error I can't manage to fix (or google) is: stty: invalid argument `-oproc'
It's from the line: echo "$PROMPT\c"; stty -oproc; read ANS

I tried just removing the -oproc but I get: speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
being displayed.

I tried removing the stty part all together but it becomes a never ending loop (loop only ends when S or D is specified but without the stty S or D isn't accepted either despite the rest appearing right).

Here's the function for more info on the code: pastebin - Stuff - post number 1892380

What Operating System are you running?
If a "stty" command is not in a "stty -a" display, it does not exist.
You may have to omit the "stty -oproc" command completely and redesign your screen layout. Interfering with what happens when the user enters data is not normal practice.

Hi,

The script was initially on a windows machine with MKS Toolkit. oproc is a command for that which "Corresponds to the Win32 ENABLE_PROCESSED_OUTPUT mode. Allows ASCII control sequences and backspace, tab, bell, carriage return, and linefeed to be processed by the system. If this mode is not set, then these special ASCII characters simply appear on the screen as special characters, rather than the appropriate motion (or sound, in the case of the bell character)."

I guess I need a UNIX equivalent (its now on unix...or maybe RH). I tried changing it to ; stty -a; but it threw out a load of text (possible -commands).

Edit: Ok it was a problem with case. I guess in windows it wasn't case sensitivie and so:
get_ans " (S)ummary or (D)etailed report ? " "s d"
worked. When I enter 's' it is treated as 'S' but the variables passed remain as 's' so they never match. Thanks for trying to help though.

Is an enquiry about all the current "stty" settings for your terminal. You can then see what they mean in "man stty". Your error message was because "stty -opost" is invalid on your Operating System.