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I'm working on a script for a basic menu with four options. The first option for the menu asks a user to put in anyone's user name and is supposed to display the user's home directory. If a user does not enter a name, then their own home directory should be displayed. The second menu option is to prompt a user for their name and then send a welcome message with that same name. I am having a very, very hard time figuring out how to code the actual menu input. I am very new to Unix and find all this quite daunting. Here is the code that I have so far:


#! /bin/csh
# This is the UNIX menu script file that is for the second part of the
# take-home final.

cat <<ENDINPUT

CISS 125
Menu of Options

1. Display all files in a user's home directory
2. Welcome yourself to the program
3. Display System Information
4. Exit back to Windows

ENDINPUT
echo Please enter your choice:
read option

case $option
1)


I'm not sure at all what to do next. I'd appreciate it if someone would please point me in the right direction. I'm guessing that I'm going to have to create another variable/read for the first menu option since the user had to input a name and that has to be read.
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menu_userptr

menu_userptr(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions					     menu_userptr(3CURSES)

NAME

       menu_userptr, set_menu_userptr - associate application data with menus

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -lmenu  -lcurses	[ library... ]
       #include <menu.h>

       char *menu_userptr(MENU *menu);

       int set_menu_userptr(MENU *menu, char *userptr);

DESCRIPTION

       Every menu has an associated user pointer that can be used to store relevant information. set_menu_userptr() sets the user pointer of menu.
       menu_userptr() returns the user pointer of menu.

RETURN VALUES

       menu_userptr() returns NULL on error.

       set_menu_userptr() returns one of the following:

       E_OK		 The routine returned successfully.

       E_SYSTEM_ERROR	 System error.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The header <menu.h> automatically includes the headers  <eti.h> and <curses.h>.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Dec 1996 					     menu_userptr(3CURSES)