Re: Simple Menu for User Input | Bourne shell scripting | Tech-Recipes

LukeS — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:39:34 -0000

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 ""

Re: Simple Menu for User Input | Bourne shell scripting | Tech-Recipes

Sunny — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:41:52 -0000

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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