Below is my menu options code. It allows user to pick one of two option. I can get the first option to work, because if it is selected it just "breaks" and carries on with the script.
What i want to know is if a user selects option two how do i get that option to ignore all the other script and go to another specific part to carry out other commands??? ( i have indicated the problem by putting ########)
Last edited by amatuer_lee_3; 05-17-2008 at 11:14 PM..
What do you mean by "make my menu run"? What errors do you get? Do you have a problem starting it like
Therefore you have to set proper rights, e.g. execute-bit (chmod 755 mymenu.sh). First line of your program must be "#!/bin/bash". If your current working dir is not in your $PATH (preferred) you must start via
Basically if i use this part of my script to move to another place for example the user selects option two, and i want it to output a function: so i type:
it does not work
Last edited by amatuer_lee_3; 05-17-2008 at 10:40 PM..
I was wondering what i have to put to make my menu run.
What problems are you having?
Your menu runs as is (after uncommenting the double semi-colons in the case statement; see below).
You do not need a shebang at the top of the file, but you should make the script executable. (You can run it without its being executable, by calling it as a argument to sh.)
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Here is my code:
When posting code, please format it so that it will fit into a typical screen. It is best to keep the number of characters per line below 80.
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Don't write useless comments. It's obvious what those lines do.
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What are ".hits files"? What do they contain? Does your search pattern match the format in the files?
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You have commented out the ';;' so that the script will not run as is.
What "new set of functions" do you want to run? If it's in a separate script, just call that script; if not, you should probably use shell functions (which must be defined before they are called).
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Why the pause?
You should make the script more user friendly by prompting for a date all in one go:
And put it and other parts of your script in their own shell functions to make the code easier to read and easier to test section by section:
But in reply to your questions: .hits files are numerous files populated with hundres of rows in the format:
I have scripts that search sepearetly for the date month and year to output the results into a tempfile. Thus limiting the results from all the hits files.
I am using a grep command to do so.
Secondly I use the case command to validate all of these inputs the user makes.
The reason i have not grouped it all together, is because i dont know how. Unlike most "students" on here i tend to only use what i understand or know. compared to people who just post hwk on here, and if i need help with a command then i come to here. Although this has nothing to do with coursework, and is just a mess about task for me to help me with my placement for next year where i will be having unix and perl experience.
I am a complete beginner to this. The reason there are pauses is because its just so i can see if everything runs ok and it gives me time to look at it.
If you refer to the link above you will see the problem. I want my "option 2" in my menu to ignore the stuff i already have in place, and run something else in the same script.
Sorry to be such a lamen about this whole thing but its the first time ive extensively used UNIX.
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