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hi, can anyone help me.  I tried to make a case script to insert in my
.login file but it didn't work.  It looks like this:

echo "Please choose:"
echo "(D)irectory  (L)ogoff  (S)hell"
read choice
case $choice in
D) ls -al;;
L) exit;;
S) cd;;

can anyone tell me what was wrong?

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                         *      Ryan Yau Lok Au        *
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Hi Yau

The .login is for csh/tcsh, but your statement with case $....
is for sh/ksh/bash/zsh.

So if you have really csh/tcsh then it looks like:

switch ($...)
    case D:
        ls -al
        breaksw
    case L:
        exit
        breaksw
    case S:
        cd
endsw

But if you have sh or ksh then it's:

case $... in
    D)...;;
...ending in
esac
which you left out. And that would be in .profile or so.

As long as you are neither sure which shell you have or how
to write such a statement, it may be better not to
fiddle with .login anyway.

All the best, Per.

--
Per Kistler, Zuerich, Switzerland. (I love unix)

http://www.micro.biol.ethz.ch/~pkistler
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Quote:>hi, can anyone help me.  I tried to make a case script to insert in my
>.login file but it didn't work.  It looks like this:
>echo "Please choose:"
>echo "(D)irectory  (L)ogoff  (S)hell"
>read choice
>case $choice in
>D) ls -al;;
>L) exit;;
>S) cd;;

If you really want the above menu, as given, to be called from .login
one thing you could try is putting:
         exec the_below_script's_name
as the last line in your .login (you need not exec it if you don't
really want that puzzling L option, but if you do, you'll need it for
"exit" to actually log you out)
If you had bash as your shell you could toss the top line and append
the rest to your .bash_profile  

#! /bin/sh
echo "Please choose:"
echo "(D)irectory  (L)ogoff  (S)hell"
read choice
case $choice in
D) ls -al;;
L) echo Hey you just got here! Oh, well; exit;;
S) echo hmm; cd;;
esac