Hello,
Depending on your liking you should look into using "dialog" boxes or a
program like "pdmenu".
Michael
Shawn wrote:
I've been trying to create a script file to automate some tasks, and have come
across some points that could use some outside input....
The script uses a menu interface. Basically, something like "Select what task
to do:", list the tasks, then the user hits a key (or types a value followed
by enter).
I found reference to the "read" command to get a value from the user. But
it's not quite the best fit... It shows a flashing cursor, and control
characters if the user happens to hit a cursor key. Is there a better suited
command/tool for this? Ideally I'd like to label the tasks/options with
letters, and then have the user just tap that letter - no enter key needed.
Next, I want to list the sub-directories of a given directory as menu options
in one case. I've worked it out, but something is nagging me that there has
got to be a better way..... Basically I build an array with the contents of
the directory, then when I'm building the menu list, I check each item to see
if it's a directory.
So, to populate the array I'm doing this:
cd $SRCDIR
dirarray=( ls * )
Then, when I'm creating the menu list with a loop like so:
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for ((i=0; i < count; i++))
do
if [ -d "${SRCDIR}/${dirarray[$i]}" ]; then
echo "$i : ${dirarray[$i]}"
fi
done
Isn't there a better way to initially populate the array with the directories
only? I didn't see such an option for ls on it's man page...
And finally, I would like to pause the script when it completes a task.
Something like "Hit any key to continue". So far the only option I can see
is to call the read command, and just ignore it's input. Is there a better
way to do this?
Thanks for any tips.
Shawn
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