Hi



I am not sure if this is the right group, but I will try anyway.

I would like to write a shell script.

The purpose of the script is to select a printer and a document from a
predefined list, and combine them to a qprt command.

I need two menus one where you can select the printer or exit, and one where
you can select the document or return to printer selection.



Some of the documents consist of more than one file that should be send to
the printer with a delay of around 7 sec.

I am new to shell scripts, so any hints that can lead me to a solution is
appreciated.



Regards Tom

If you 'ping -c 1 1' and have a momentary outage, you will get
notified.

ping will return a failed code if > 50% of pings fail. So a better
test would be 'ping -c 3'. If 2 out of 3 pings fail, then $? will be
"1", else it will be "0". On some OSes, a packet size of "1" is
illegal.

BV

"Tom" <rs_underscorefilex@post9.tele.dk> wrote in message news:<40332074$0$283$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk >...
> Hi
>
>
>
> I am not sure if this is the right group, but I will try anyway.
>
> I would like to write a shell script.
>
> The purpose of the script is to select a printer and a document from a
> predefined list, and combine them to a qprt command.
>
> I need two menus one where you can select the printer or exit, and one where
> you can select the document or return to printer selection.
>
>
>
> Some of the documents consist of more than one file that should be send to
> the printer with a delay of around 7 sec.
>
> I am new to shell scripts, so any hints that can lead me to a solution is
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Regards Tom

Here's a snip of code that will display a menu and build a selection
list. This will be the core of your script with some modifications,
of course to make multiple selections, like the print queue and then
the reports you wish to send to the print queue you will probably use
code similar to this snip twice.

CT=0

for FILE in `ls *.iso`
do
CT=`expr $CT + 1`
echo "$CT) $FILE"
echo -n "$FILE " >> $HOME/imagelist

done

echo
echo "select # of image to burn"
read ITEM

Note the second echo in the for loop builds a space delimited list of
the values displayed on the menu, you will wish to take care not to
exceed the limits of the display. The following command will take the
selection read as $ITEM and cut the appropriate value from the space
delimited list.

SELECTED_ITEM=`cut -f $ITEM -d " " $HOME/imagelist`

This should get you started. Good luck, have fun!

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway rs_underscorefilex@post9.tele.dk typed:
> Hi
>
>
>
> I am not sure if this is the right group, but I will try anyway.
>
> I would like to write a shell script.
>
> The purpose of the script is to select a printer and a document from a
> predefined list, and combine them to a qprt command.
>
> I need two menus one where you can select the printer or exit, and one where
> you can select the document or return to printer selection.
>
> Some of the documents consist of more than one file that should be send to
> the printer with a delay of around 7 sec.
>
> I am new to shell scripts, so any hints that can lead me to a solution is
> appreciated.

Here are two parts of a script I wrote on an AIX box to display a list of
printers from which the users could then do various things to a selected printer.
The first chunk builds a list of all the printers.
The second chunk displays the list on the screen and allows for selection.
(I can't give you the whole script for obvious reasons and YMMV)

inx=0 # build list of printers
/usr/bin/lsallq | sort |
while read ITM
do
inx=`expr $inx + 1`
OPTDSC[${inx}]="${ITM}"
done
let TOTAL=${inx}


UDI=true # user data input
while ( ${UDI} -eq true ) ; do
let REC=1
let I=1
let J=1
let MIN=${REC}
SCRN="${HDR}"
# complete screen mask
while (( ${I} <= ${lines} )) ; do
if (( ${REC} <= ${TOTAL} )) ;
then ITM=${OPTDSC[${REC}]}
SCRN="${SCRN}\t${REC}\t${ITM}"
let MAX=${REC}
let REC=${REC}+1
let J=${J}+1
if [[ ${J} = 4 ]] ; # three printers per line
then let J=1
SCRN="${SCRN}\n"
let I=${I}+1
else if [[ ${#ITM} -lt 8 ]] ; # next tab stop
then SCRN="${SCRN}\t"
fi
fi
else SCRN="${SCRN}\n" # no more options
let I=${I}+1
let REC=${REC}+1
fi
done
# Set which options are available and build the options message...
PRMP="Enter printer number(s), or q(uit) :- "
# Display screen mask and accept input data
OK=""
while [[ ${OK} = "" ]] ;
do
print -n "${SCRN}\n${rev}${MSG}${std}\n\n${PRMP}"
read ans
if [[ ${?} != 0 ]] ;
then clear
echo "\n\n${JOBNAME} - run aborted!"
exit 0
fi
MSG=""
CMD=""
case ${ans} in[*]) doone ;;
q|Q) OK="true"
UDI=false ;;
*) doall ;;
esac
done
done

Good luck with your endevours
--
Trog Woolley | trog at trogwoolley dot com
(A Croweater back residing in Pommie Land with Linux)
Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna

If you need a pretty menu, I prefered smitty.

First form a selector to select a printer. second a dialog asks if
which document to be printed.

Learn about the ODM programming, custom the ODM database, then you get
the goal.
I forget the URL, Search in IBM programming references.

"Tom" <rs_underscorefilex@post9.tele.dk> wrote in message news:<40332074$0$283$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk >...
> Hi
>
>
>
> I am not sure if this is the right group, but I will try anyway.
>
> I would like to write a shell script.
>
> The purpose of the script is to select a printer and a document from a
> predefined list, and combine them to a qprt command.
>
> I need two menus one where you can select the printer or exit, and one where
> you can select the document or return to printer selection.
>
>
>
> Some of the documents consist of more than one file that should be send to
> the printer with a delay of around 7 sec.
>
> I am new to shell scripts, so any hints that can lead me to a solution is
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Regards Tom