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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I have made aliases for playing five radio stations with 
> mpg123 and since I cannot recall all the station names, 
> I made a small script: echo 'wdav 24k, kcme 32k,......' 
> (chmod +x) and called it radio, and put it on the path.  

Why don't you do a menu?  Something as simple as 
this should work:
--------------------------------------------
select i in wdav kcme wabc wxyz; do $i; done
--------------------------------------------

For a fancier menu, you could use "read" and "case".
Have a look inside the "pppsetup" or "mail" scripts 
to see how this is done. 

> I put it, with sound-on, cdr-on, zip-on, scanner-on, etc., 
> in  /usr/local/sbin.  

There is no need for all those aliases when you have
a proper menu (using read/case).

> I type radio for a list of stations, then type the station name.

You could call your menu script "radio" and then type
a number (or letter) to run the station.  

> Is there a better way of doing this which would still 
> let me type the radio station call name, but also let 
> me just type its number after viewing a menu? 

In the case statement, you can specify options by putting
a | between them.  For example:
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case $answer in 
 wdav|1) 
   [your command(s) to start wdav]
 ;;
 kcme|2)
   [your command(s) to start kcme]
 ;;
esac
----------------------------------

That lets you use either the number or name to choose.


Cheers,
Steven

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