Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Re: Your message to Linuxcommand-discuss awaits moderator approval

[Bruce B. <bbu...@ea...>]

Alaa---  I got your  rough draft and will send it back
annotated in a few days....

    Just read the "case"  lesson in Bill's  tutorial, and
made the following  crude improvement to the fe  script:

(sure wish  I knew how to make the output  page without
using  Shift +  PageUp/PageDown.......[ which in a huge directory like  /dev
would run off the scrollback buffer ] )




#!/bin/bash
###2.05
case $1 in
         -l) XX=less ;;
         -f) XX=file ;;
         -z) XX=zless ;;
         -ll) XX="ls -lah" ;;
         -h) XX=w3m ;;
            *)  echo "Usage: You must use one of these options:
              -l for less
              -f for file
              -z for zless
              -ll for ls -lah
              -h  for w3m "

         exit 1
     ;;

esac

while : ; do
     select fname in $HOME / EXIT $(ls -aF) ; do
              if [ "$fname" = EXIT ] ; then
                  echo "$PWD" > /home/farley931/.t2
              exit; fi

             if [ -f "$fname" ] ; then
                     echo
                    echo
                    ${XX} "$fname"
                   echo
                   echo
            elif [ -d "$fname" ] ; then
               cd "$fname"
               echo "$PWD"
               break
              fi
     done
done


Bruce<+>