Shell script project

[archieoboyle]

hello,
i need to write a shell script that first comes up with a menu giving 4 options. Firstly ' 1) display a list of current users' ; ' 2) display a list of all files including hidden files in the home directory(i believe using the ls -a command)' ; 3) output a calender for the current month( i believe using the 'cal' command)' ; 4) and finally to be able to quit the script. The user can choose these options from a menu. I have be trialing many techniques, but with no luck! If anyone can help it would be much appreciated!

[stevepdp]

Besides learning some simple bash script programming, I believe the tool 'dialog' will be appropriate here.

I don't know for certain, but I believe raspi-config uses it. Or at least, using dialog will produce menus that achieve a similar look and feel.

There's some docs here.

Hope this helps!

[rpdom]

Actually raspi-config uses "whiptail" which can produce some pretty menus and return the results to scripts. It's a replacement for "dialog".

However you can easily do simple menus in Bash (or other shells) as I have been doing for many years. Something like: clear screen using the "clear" command, then echo a load of options and "read response" then check that $response is valid. Stick the whole thing in a "while" loop and Robert's your father's brother

(psuedo code - not real bash)

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valid="n"
while [ "$valid" = "n" ]
do
    clear
    display menu items
    read response
    check response for valid values
    if response is valid, set valid="y"
done

[archieoboyle]

Thanks very much, will look into it!