Practicing and learning Scripting.

[Jonny87]

I'm currently practicing and learning some basic scripting and was hoping that someone can help me with something.

basically I'm trying to get an "if" statement to read from the output of a zenity command, and then go on to execute another command based on the result of the if. I've tried heaps of different things and tried looking it (though not 100% what to look for) so far what is as shown below.

zenity --list --radiolist \
--title="Choose the Bugs You Wish to View" \
--column="select" --column="Severity" --column="Description" \
1 normal "GtkTreeView crashes on multiple selections" \
2 high "GNOME Dictionary does not handle proxy" \
3 critical "Menu editing does not work in GNOME 2.0"



if [ "$VAR" == normal ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected normal'
elif [ "$VAR" == high ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected high'
elif [ "$VAR" == critical ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected critical'
fi

I'm still learning this stuff so my apologies if I've missed something obvious. So can any one give me an example of what to put into this script to merge the two sections together so that they work.

[drl]

Hi.

I modified your script as:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate zenity return of user selection.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space.
pe() { for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }

VAR=$(zenity --list --radiolist \
--title="Choose the Bugs You Wish to View" \
--column="select" --column="Severity" --column="Description" \
1 normal "GtkTreeView crashes on multiple selections" \
2 high "GNOME Dictionary does not handle proxy" \
3 critical "Menu editing does not work in GNOME 2.0" \
)

pe " VAR is $VAR"
pe

if [ "$VAR" == normal ]; then
pe " debug, VAR as $VAR found."
# zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected normal'
zenity --info --title='Test' --text='You selected normal'
elif [ "$VAR" == high ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected high'
elif [ "$VAR" == critical ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected critical'
fi 

exit 0

producing:

% ./s1
 VAR is normal

 debug, VAR as normal found.

which caused your VAR to be set, and with the GUI interaction behaving as I would expect, etc. You should be able to finish it ... cheers, drl

[Jonny87]

Hi.

I modified your script as:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate zenity return of user selection.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space.
pe() { for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }

VAR=$(zenity --list --radiolist \
--title="Choose the Bugs You Wish to View" \
--column="select" --column="Severity" --column="Description" \
1 normal "GtkTreeView crashes on multiple selections" \
2 high "GNOME Dictionary does not handle proxy" \
3 critical "Menu editing does not work in GNOME 2.0" \
)

pe " VAR is $VAR"
pe

if [ "$VAR" == normal ]; then
pe " debug, VAR as $VAR found."
# zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected normal'
zenity --info --title='Test' --text='You selected normal'
elif [ "$VAR" == high ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected high'
elif [ "$VAR" == critical ]; then
zenity --info --title='Test' text='You selected critical'
fi 

exit 0

producing:

% ./s1
 VAR is normal

 debug, VAR as normal found.

which caused your VAR to be set, and with the GUI interaction behaving as I would expect, etc. You should be able to finish it ... cheers, drl

Thanks, this worked a treat and I have now been able to rewrite it so for the purpose that I had in mind for it. I'll keep this one somewhere safe so that I can refer back to it in future.

Another idea that I'm interested in is a script that will run a constant ping until it gets a response, then once it receives a reply from the ping to the specified ip num, it executes the next command.
I know how to run a the ping and I know the command that I want to run. I just don't know how to get a script acknowledge the reply from the ping to the say ok run the next command.

I have tried tinkering with the you one that you posted above and haven't been able to get it going. Are you (or someone else) able to point me in the right direction.

[drl]

Hi.

Please start a new thread for a new question. That provides better results for others using the forum search feature as a knowledge base.

Also include a short example of your attempt(s) -- like you did in your post here. Thanks ... cheers, drl