2 comments

• 

  Sunny

  2 months ago

  when i just copy paste your script and try to run, i encountered with below error, please suggest what is wrong... and thx for your script...
  ===============
  ERROR:
  user-input.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
  user-input.sh: line 7: `cat <'
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• 

  LukeS

  1 month ago

  there are sever problems in his, try this, its still not perfect, but it works:
  #!/bin/bash
  
  ## Clears the screen and builds the user input screen
  
  function screen() {
  clear
  cat <<EOF
  ####################################################################
  ## Main Screen for Input ##
  ####################################################################
  ## ##
  ## User Name: [________________________________________] ##
  ## Directory: [________________________________________] ##
  ## Group: [________________________________________] ##
  ## ##
  ####################################################################
  ## [ Preferences ] [ Other Info ] ##
  ####################################################################
  ## [_] Show Email? [_] Receive News? ##
  ## [_] Show Address? [_] Receive RSS? ##
  ####################################################################
  EOF
  }
  
  ## This will echo out the contents of the helpString variable
  ## below the screen
  function showHelp() {
  tput cup 14 0
  ## Clear out the last information
  echo " "
  tput cup 14 0
  echo $helpString
  }
  ## Display the screen
  screen
  
  ## Set up the help information, and call the showHelp function
  ## that displays it
  helpString="Enter the user or press ENTER to quit"
  showHelp
  tput cup 4 15
  read username
  ## If they don't enter a username, quit
  if [ "$username" = "" ]
  then
  exit
  fi
  
  ## Now go through and get the other data
  helpString="Enter Home Directory"
  showHelp
  tput cup 5 15
  read directory
  
  helpString="What group does $username belong to?"
  showHelp
  tput cup 6 15
  read group
  
  helpString="Do you want to show the Email Address to others? [y/n"
  showHelp
  tput cup 11 4
  read showEmail
  
  helpString="Do you want to show your Home Address to others [y/n]"
  showHelp
  tput cup 12 4
  read showAddress
  
  helpString="Would you like to receive the News Letter?"
  showHelp
  tput cup 11 24
  read getNews
  
  helpString="Would you like to receive the RSS Feed?"
  showHelp
  tput cup 12 24
  read getRSS
  
  helpString="Thank you for your input"
  showHelp
  echo ""
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