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# 8  
Old 03-26-2014
Code:
               BACKUP PROJECT

                 select option

               1.auto Backup
               2.manual Backup



               Enter your choice [1-2]:1
autobackup

If I enter 2:
Code:
                 Select Destination

               3.local
               4.Remote



               Enter choice:3
local destinaion

# 9  
Old 03-26-2014
Same here. Try inserting set -x at the second line after the shebang to get some more debugging info
# 10  
Old 03-26-2014
when i executed the code without nested case i got the required output....but when i included nested case none of the echo statement is printing
# 11  
Old 03-26-2014
Works for me as well (bash 4.2.24).

As Subbeh suggested, turn on tracing and post the output (and your script, if you've changed it).

Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
The read -p is trying to read from a pipe, not from the screen.
For the bash builtin, -p <text> just writes <text> to stderr before it waits for input.
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# 12  
Old 03-26-2014
Thank u guys....got it now.,
# 13  
Old 03-27-2014
read -p Shows the message to the user that is passed after -p...

Further, the trailing ;;
esac should be moved to the end of the first case..
Code:
read -p "Enter your choice [1-2]:" choice
case $choice in

1) echo "autobackup" ;;
2) _zenity="/usr/bin/zenity"
 SOUR_PATH=$(${_zenity} --title "Enter source path"\
                        --entry --text "Enter the source pathe to backup" )

hth
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