Enter PO Numbers to create text file with entetred PO. Please type 'exit' when you finished entering
12345678
exit
Checking PO's wait for a while!!!!!!
12345678
1
9
Error in PO,contains more than 7 char in line number 1 with 9 characters
Do you want to enter PO again(Y/N):
1
In the above one i need to check the input untill it match 7 char
but when its more than 7 i need give option y/Y pompt not waiting for user input
You have been told multiple times that error() is reading from temp.txt rather than from your keyboard. Having you repeat that error() is not reading from your terminal is not going to change the fact that you cannot have an interactive discussion with a user at a terminal while you are reading input from a file instead of from the terminal.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-23-2013 at 04:37 AM..
I repeat: You cannot have an interactive discussion with a user at a terminal while you are reading input from a file instead of from the terminal.
The logic of your script makes no sense.
Do you want to read a list of PO numbers from a file and save the subset of those PO numbers that meet your validation criteria in a file ($current/PO_NO.txt)? Or, do you want to have an interactive session with someone sitting at a terminal typing in PO numbers, saving PO numbers they type in that meet your validation criteria in the same file?
Choose one of the above! The mixed approach you are currently using cannot work.
Processing the list of validated PO numbers is a separate problem we can address after you come up with a way to get a list of validated PO numbers.
Here is an alternative to your script that I think does what you were trying to do. It will interactively read a list of PO numbers if standard input for the script is a TTY, and will read a list of PO numbers from a pipe or regular file without prompting if the input is not a TTY. Each line of input will be checked to see if it contains 7 non-space characters and if it does, it will be added to a file containing validated PO numbers; otherwise the reason why the line was not accepted will be written to standard output.
This script will not work with /bin/sh on a Solaris 5.10 system, but will work with any ksh, bash, or other POSIX-conforming shell (including /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and /usr/xpg6/bin/sh on Solaris systems). This script assumes that the directory you specified by the variable current contains a subdirectory named PO_bk (which was present in comments in your script) and saves the the previous run's results in a file in that directory with the backup file's name including the date AND TIME when the backup is created.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
set -f
IFS=""
current=/home_dir/a541101
#current="$PWD"
#DATE=$(date +"%m-%d-%y")
DATE=$(date +"%m-%d-%y@%H:%M:%S")
outf="$current/PO_NO.txt" # Output file to hold validated PO#s
if [ -f "$outf" ]
then mv "$outf" "$current/PO_bk/PO_NO_$DATE.txt"
fi
ilc=0 # input line count
poc=0 # validated PO count
if [ "not a tty" = "$(LC_ALL=POSIX tty)" ]
then PA=''
else PA='Enter PO# (exit or CTL-d when done): '
fi
while printf "$PA" && read PO
do ((ilc++))
if [ "X$PO" = "Xexit" ]
then break
fi
if [ "X$PO" != "X${PO#* }" ]
then printf "Error: \"%s\" on line %d contains a <space>\n" \
"$PO" $ilc
elif [ ${#PO} -ne 7 ]
then printf "Error: \"%s\" on line %d is %d characters (not 7)\n" \
"$PO" $ilc ${#PO}
else printf "PO \"%s\" on line %d validated\n" "$PO" $ilc
echo "$PO" >> "$outf"
((poc++))
fi
done
printf "\n%d validated PO number(s) are saved in %s\n" $poc "$outf"
if [ ! -f "$outf" ]
then
echo "No valid PO numbers entered."
exit 1
fi
echo "Triggering the PO Publish script..."
Hopefully this will give you some ideas that you can use to create a script that will work for you.
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