Shell Programming and Scripting

Looks like I just missed the semi-colon. I typically put the 'do' on the second line and not on the first line so when I tried the : out, it failed just as it did for him. My mistake there.

Carl

Carl, Can you see where I am having bug in the if statements..I have some type of syntax error and cannot see where it is..I am using bash

I want to redirect my output to standard out as well as to a file.
Thanks for your help.







Volume_Returns()
{
echo "Enter Volumes to be returned"; read input; echo $input
mminfo -q volume=$input -r volume,location,pool,volretent > $1
echo "Is this the volume you would like to return"
read response
if [ $response = y ]; then
echo " Please return the follow tapes $1" >$RETURN_REQUEST
else
echo "incorrect response"
exit
fi
}
Volume_Date_Returns()
{
echo "Return of all '"expired"' ERV tapes '(y/n)'"
if [ $response = y ]; then
mminfo -q volrent=expired -q location=ERV -r volume,volretent,pool &1>$TMP/vol.out
echo " Is this list the correct list of tapes to be returned?"
if [$response = "y" ] then
echo "List will be emailed to you"
fi
if [ $response = "n" ]; then
echo "Enter date of tapes to be returned '(mm/dd/yy or enter (T)oday, (Y)esterday, (L)ast week)'"
read dates
mminfo -q volretent='$dates'-q location=ERV -r volume, volrent,pool |more $TMP/vol.out
fi
}











[QUOTE=gzs553]Carl,

so far I've got the menu's working. Thank-you.. I am sure I will need more assistance, but will have to test each function as a piecemeal. I'm only a beginner, but I'm still learning. Thanks again..you'll her from me soon also.[/QUOT