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Old 11-19-2013
Case statement help
Hi I am new to shell scripting, I wanted to make a shell script that has a case statement asking the user to select their city 1)london 2)tokyo 3) etc., I then want the users input to be stored in a variable and echoed out in another script; so for example if the user selects tokyo, tokyo city code 1234 is stored in the variable cityselect, from another linked script if I echo $cityselect this should bring out the city code for tokyo which is the value 1234. Is this possible?

thanks
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Old 11-19-2013
Yes, it's possible.

Where are you stuck? Post your script so far.
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Old 11-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
Yes, it's possible.

Where are you stuck? Post your script so far.
thanks for the reply I am not sure how to write the case statement I have:

this is the config.sh
Code:
#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter a city LONDON, TOKYO, MADRID. "
read CityConfig

case $CityConfig in 
	LONDON) echo "1234" ;;
	TOKYO) echo "5678" ;;
	MADRID) echo "9123" ;;
	*) echo "INVALID CITY!" ;;
esac

I want the chosen to be displayed in html page via genWebsite.sh:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
source ./config.sh


weather_forecast()
{
	

echo ""
echo "<html><head><title>Welcome</title></head>"
echo "<body>"
echo "<h2>Weather Forecast</h2>"
 echo "<a href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/leicester/le1-3/weather-forecast/$CityConfig" class="aw-widget-legal">"
echo "</a><div id="awcc1384544545323" class="aw-widget-current"  data-locationkey="$CityConfig" data-unit="c" data-language="en-gb" data-useip="false" data-uid="awcc1384544545323"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://oap.accuweather.com/launch.js"></script>"

echo "</body></html>"


##### Main

cat <<- _EOF_
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
        <TITLE>
        My System Information
        </TITLE>
    </HEAD>

    <BODY>
    <H1>My System Information</H1>


      $(weather_forecast)



    </BODY>
    </HTML>
_EOF_
 
}

 
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