simple script - selection options on checklist

[pawellt]

Hello everybody,

I need to write a simple script in xdialog.
You select on checklist one option and this script
call one command. I have at this moment:

#!/bin/sh
DIALOG=Xdialog

$DIALOG --backtitle "This is the \"my eraser\"" \
--checklist "Eraser" 0 0 0 \

"a" "Erase tmp in home directory" OFF \
"b" "Erase xmule files" ON \
"c" "Erase /tmp" ON\

What should I do, that after selection of option "a", system will do
"rm -fr /home/pawel/tmp/*".. after selection "b" - "rm -fr .xmule/tmp/*"
etc ...

Thanks for help,
Pawel

[Dolda2000]

I have not used xdialog, but I guess that it works the same as the ncurses dialog. In that case, I would do that like this:

#!/bin/sh

temp="$(dialog your arguments 2>&1)"
eval "ans=($temp)"

for cmd in "${ans[@]}"; do
    case "$cmd" in
    a)
        rm -rf /home/pawel/tmp/*
        ;;
    b)
        rm -rf ~/.xmule/tmp/*
        ;;
    (and so on)
done