topic Re: menu creator in Operating System - HP-UX

menu creator

Mark VineGar — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:42:30 GMT

Is anyone aware of an HP-UX utility that generates menus? Is it a standard command or an application that needs to be installed? I remember hearing something about this years ago.
Thanks
Mark

Re: menu creator

James Specht — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:48:02 GMT

You can create custom menus in sam and use restricted sam to grant access. Is that what you are looking for?

--Jim

Re: menu creator

Pete Randall — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:52:17 GMT

Mark,

Possibly you're referring to the "select/case" construct. It goes something like this:

PS3="Enter your selection"
select blah in "blah1 blah2 blah3"
do
case $blah in
"blah1" )
do something
"blah2" )
do something else
"blah3" )
do some other thing
"Exit" )
echo exiting...
exit 0;;
* )
echo "Please try again"
esac
done

See the attached example.

Pete

Re: menu creator

Mark VineGar — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:10:26 GMT

Yes. The SELECT was what I was referring to. Thanks a bunch Pete. I'll also look at the SAM option. Thanks James.