Shell Programming and Scripting

You are also missing one set of ;; at the end of 3) in the second case statement.

Ok, added second ;; in 3) of second case statement, now claims that it's unexpected

Filename: syntax error at line 157: ';;' unexpected

Is the UNIX server that I'm using on drugs? Or is it just me?

Thanks

Maybe the code I grabbed off here didn't have it. Just make sure for each case option, you have the same amount of ending ;;. You have 8 total option (4 options in each case) so you should have 8 ;; closing each option. Just as you had the two case statements but didn't have the closing esac statements (you fixed that).

Also, are you attempting to use 4) Quit in both case statements? That would be illegal/wrong/unadvisable.

I pulled out all the extra and just checked your code this way:

#!/bin/sh
echo "A case example"
echo ----------------
echo ---Main--Menu---
echo ----------------
echo
echo "1. Backup files"
echo
echo "2. Restore Backed-up files"
echo
echo "3. View Logs"
echo
echo "4. Quit"
echo
echo Please enter your selection
read selection
case $selection in
1)
echo "backup of file"
;;
2)
echo "Restore of files"
;;
3)
echo "Menu choices again"
echo "1. Search logs"
echo "2. View by date"
echo "3. View by type"
echo "4. Quit"
echo "Please enter your selection"
read sel1
case $sel1 in
1)
echo "Searching logs"
;;
2)
echo "Viewing logs by date"
;;
3)
echo "Viewing logs by type"
;;
4)
echo "quitting"
;;
esac
;;
4)
echo "Quitting"
;;
esac
echo "done"
exit

Ummm....single quotes are special to the shell. You need to quote that quote with a backslash.

G'day again

Can you see anything wrong with this? As it's still caliming that the indicated area is unexpected.

cd logs
grep B *.*
else
grep R *.*
fi
;;
** 4) #Leave the program **
exit
;;
esac
exit
4) #Drop the user back to the prompt
exit
;;
fi
exit

See if you can make any sense of it please

Thanks again
(Would've written sooner, 'cept that I needed to sleep)

Aussie_Bloke

Have you tried putting the line:
set -x
at the top? It will show you what the script's doing as it runs...

I'm going to eat now, but if I get a chance later, I'll run the script, and see what I get...

Thanks for all of your help everyone, but it's to no avail, the assignment (You were right LivinFree) still doesn't work, and as a result of my lack of prgamming and understanding of UNIX, it's going to be submitted as being incomplete

I wish to thank all of those who assisted in getting me this far, and I'll try to come here now and again if I can

See yas all later

Aussie_Bloke