Im trying to make a menu driven shell script and ive hit a brick wall please help
 

Hi all ive managed to get the following script to work in opensuse using linux.
#!/bin/bash
# Menu
while [ answer != "0" ]
do
clear
echo “Main menu”
echo "Select from the following functions"
echo "0 exit"
echo "1. Set File Directory"
echo "2. Text File Management"
read -p " ?" answer
case $answer in
0) break ;;
1) echo "Go up a directory"
echo “Go into a directory”
echo “Set working directory” ;;
2) echo “List (.txt) files”
echo “Create File”
echo “ Delete File” ;;
*) break ;;
esac
echo "press RETURN for menu"
read key
done
exit 0

That script works fine but i cant figure out for the life of me how to actually make it so that the user can then go up a directory, go into a directory, list txt files etc... via the menu script i am trying to create. Any suggestions? thanks all

What part fails?

Remember user may have to have it start in some place, not where you have access to and permissions.

See this too. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/...ic-linux-menu/

1. here's a good example using the 'select' cmd; recommended for menus
http://askubuntu.com/questions/1705/...a-shell-script

2. for each option, create bash fns for each option and call them from the matching selection

3. useful links
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

4. please use code tags when posting; clearer and preserves indenting
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...do=bbcode#code


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