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Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

Keith Fuller_1 — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:58:00 GMT

Hi All

I am new to shell scripting and am trying to create a set of menus from scratch. I have created the menus and linked them together, but when i type quit i get sent back to the previous menu instead of returning to the command line. is there anyway of getting the menus to exit straight to the command line, rather then having to type quit for each copy of the menu i have visited.

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:00:43 GMT

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:06:27 GMT

Hi Keith

If you exec your sub menu then an exit from that will not take you back to the previous menu.

I.E.

exec /sysadmin/submenu

HTH

Paula

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

harry d brown jr — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:10:37 GMT

NO BIGGIE:

Change these lines where you call another menu:

testment:
1) echo "Day Tasks"
sleep 2
daytasks
;;

to
exec daytasks

daytasks:
4) echo "Back to main menu"
sleep 1
testmenu
;;

to

exec testmenu

Although crappy coding IMO, its the solution you are looking for.

live free or die
harry

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

Steve Steel — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:12:03 GMT

Hi

FYI http://www.introcomp.co.uk/examples/index.html

contains some good examples

Solutions.

After you call a new menu in a script put the word exit on the next line so the menu will
return to the previous menu and autoexit

ro

Use
. menu

To activate menus.This stops the shell forking and continues at the same shell level.

Steve Steel

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:15:26 GMT

Hi Keith:

If you divide your submenus into functions, you can use the 'return' command to exit the function (submenu) and thereby return to the "outer block" (main menu). If you wish to abandon processing within a function without further ado, use 'exit' in lieu of the 'return' statement.

Have a look at the 'sh_posix' man pages. A quick overview of shell commands can be found here ("Shells: User's Guide"):

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90046/B2355-90046.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

Keith Fuller_1 — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:19:15 GMT

Hi everyone

Thanks for all your help, this now works.

Regards

Keith Fuller

Re: Problems when creating a set of menus via shell scripts

MAD_2 — Fri, 13 May 2005 14:27:47 GMT

Sorry guys for not posting what may appear to be enough points. However, I have seen at least one menu driven application written in ksh that allowed the user to navigate through the options by means of the arrow keys. For my initial menu options I am using numbers/letters.

Thanks a lot for the responses so far. If/when I come up with a solution, I'd like to post the script, if I complete it :-) Well, at least the parts that are breaking my brain at the moment.

Thanks!

Adam.