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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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:
> ----------------------------------
> 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.

This means I could type radio, then either wdav or 1 to start wdav?

But could I then also, without using 'radio' first, just type wdav?
I seem to be doing a lot of switching between stations when one stops 
playing and is busy afterwards, and don't want to always have to use the 
menu to choose.

I don't know how to write the above - is this shell scripting?  What part 
of Dr. Linux would I look in for more info?

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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