Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I'm having a rather peculiar problem involving parameter passing with declared functions in my shell script. Hope to get some advice here.

A brief description of my code is as follows:

However, I'm not getting the results I wanted. If I pass in $rdir, I'm going to end up referencing from the root (ie. / ) and printing out the root directory names (ie. bin, boot, dev, etc, home). However, if I hard code the directory location in place of $1 in showmenu(), I'll see the correct directory names.

Any ideas as to why the directory names are not showing?

Thanks in advance.

You have spaces at either side of the equals sign here...

Code:

rdir = /products

This is the wrong syntax for declaring a variable. Instead, the shell would try to run an executable called "rdir" with two arguments "=" and "/products".

Code:

rdir = /products

You can't do that. Get rid of the spaces surrounding the equals sign.

Hey, thanks a bunch guys! Wouldn't have foreseen this since I'm more of a Java and C programmer than a shell scripter

There is an error in your while test :

Code:

i=0
while ((i<${#items[*]}))
do
   echo "$i. ${items[$i]}"
   ((i+=1))
done