On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:54:59 -0500, David Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > not a programmer as you'll quickly notice. My problem is that I have > to enter a key followed by ENTER. This is obviously cumbersome when Probably the input is being buffered. But you need to be able to read each charachter immediately. I believe there's a way to turn off input buffering on STDIN via bash, but at the moment I don't recall the magic to do so... I think you might want to setup the "read" function to only read one character at a time (by default, I think it is line buffered). Look up how to do those things, and I think you'll be on your way... > using a remote control. Does bash have a way around this? Should I be > using another language? If the latter, I would prefer, for now, a > scripting language -- thinking this would be easier to figure out as I > need to learn new things. > > #!/bin/sh > while [ "$choice" != q ] > do > read choice > case "$choice" in > a) /usr/local/bin/jac -P1;; #jac is a command line CD player > b) /usr/local/bin/jac -P5;; > c) /usr/local/bin/jac -k;; > #First kill the CD and then start DVD player > d) /usr/local/bin/jac -k; /usr/local/bin/ogle -u cli;; > q) /usr/local/bin/jac -k;; > esac > done > exit 0 > > Thanks everyone. A push in the right direction might be all I need, > maybe even just some good online resources that can get me going > quickly. > > David Bellows > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
