Coding In the Bourne Shell
Hi there I have a book written in the BASH Shell and I am telnetting to a Server that is using the Bourne Shell

I have this Script and it won't run


$ vi phmenu
"phmenu" 22 lines, 705 characters
#==================================================================
#Script Name: phmenu
#By:
#Date: Feb 22 2010
#Purpose: A menu for the Corporate Phone List
#Command Line: Phmenu
#==================================================================
phonefile=/mnt2/info5068w10/01/test/chap7/corp_phones
loop=y
while [ "$loop" = y ]
do
clear
tput cup 3 12; echo "Corporate Phone Reporting Menu"
tput cup 4 12; echo "=============================="
tput cup 6 9; echo "P - Print Phone List"
tput cup 7 9; echo "A - Add New Phones"
tput cup 8 9; echo "S - Search for Phones"
tput cup 10 9; echo "Q - Quit: "
tput cup 10 19;
read choice | | continue
case $choice in
[Aa]) ./phoneadd ;;
[Pp]) ./phlist1 ;;
[Ss]) ./phonefind ;;
[Qq]) exit ;;
*) tput cup 14 4; echo "Invalid Code"; read choice ;;
esac
done


Any Idea
This is the error

$ ./phmenu
./phmenu: syntax error at line 20: `|' unexpected

Remove the space between the '| |' and try if it works then.

Change

read choice | | continue

to

read choice

Okay changing it to just *Read Choice* works,

Moved to programming

First, scripts *must* have a valid shebang line on the top in order to even qualify as scripts (#!/bin/sh or #!/usr/bin/env bash).

Once you've decided what shell you're exactly using, then we can discuss the most idiomatic method of getting what you want done. The approaches in Bash scripting are *very* different than in POSIX sh.

Which are very different from the Bourne shell.