Creating a Case statement dynamically

Creating a Case statement dynamically

[zzapper]

Hi  Z-men


I have script which lists a series of files I might wish to edit

manuals/client-man-admin.tex
manuals/client-man-catalogbasket.tex
manuals/client-man-userguide.tex
quotes/client-admin.tex
quotes/client.tex

I'd like the script to dynamically output a case such


vared -p " Type number to edit or q" -c action
case $action in
 1) gvim manuals/clientman-admin.tex ;;
 2) gvim manuals/clientman-catalogbasket.tex ;;
 etc
 q) exit 0;;
 *) ;; # everything else including return: do nothing
esac

but how to do?

Alternative solutions welcome


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Re: Creating a Case statement dynamically

[Nikolai Weibull]

zzapper wrote:

> I have script which lists a series of files I might wish to edit
> 
> I'd like the script to dynamically output a case

Use an array/list and select the nth element from it,
        nikolai

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Re: Creating a Case statement dynamically

[John Reese]

2005/6/28, Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>:
> zzapper wrote:
> 
> > I have script which lists a series of files I might wish to edit
> >
> > I'd like the script to dynamically output a case
> 
> Use an array/list and select the nth element from it,
>         nikolai
> 

I suggest the "select" loop.  For example:

select f in **/*.tex; do
  if [[ "$REPLY" = q ]]; then
    break
  elif [[ -n "$f" ]]; then
    gvim $f
  fi
done

Note that this block will loop until you exit with ^C or q.

Re: Creating a Case statement dynamically

[zzapper]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:50:54 -0700,  wrote:

>2005/6/28, Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>:
>> zzapper wrote:
>> 
>> > I have script which lists a series of files I might wish to edit
>> >
>> > I'd like the script to dynamically output a case
>> 
>> Use an array/list and select the nth element from it,
>>         nikolai
>> 
>
>I suggest the "select" loop.  For example:
>
>select f in **/*.tex; do
>  if [[ "$REPLY" = q ]]; then
>    break
>  elif [[ -n "$f" ]]; then
>    gvim $f
>  fi
>done
>
>Note that this block will loop until you exit with ^C or q.
thx just what I was looking for!

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