On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:35:38 -0500 Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > > fluxbox -f;; > > > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > > ' [restart] (Restart) > > [separator] > > [exit] (Exit) > > [end] > > [end]' > > > > What I want to do is to add this script onto the end of the first > > command, and it is - > > #!/bin/bash > > # title - submenu > > > > echo [submenu] (My Menu) > > echo [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu) > > echo [end] > > echo [separator] > > > > So the final running command will look like this - > > 'mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > > fluxbox -f; submenu;;' > > > > and the main menu will look like this at the end - > > [restart] (Restart) > > [separator] > > [exit] (Exit) > > [end] > > [submenu] (My Menu) > > [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu) > > [end] > > [separator] > > > > But how do I do it please? > > sed is your friend. If I've followed your message (you want > menu-`date` to contain the submenu), this should do the > trick--*provided* the last [end] is the last line in the file: No, the menu+date is a backed up copy of the main menu, which is periodically deleted. > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); \ > sed -i -e '$ i \ > \t\t\[submenu] (My Menu)\ > \t\t\[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)\ > \t\t\[end]\ > \t\t\[separator] ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); \ > mmakerfluxbox -f; submenu;; > > If the last [end] is the only one in the file at the beginning of the > line, change the first line of the sed chant to: > > sed -e '/^\[end]/ i \ > > (Instead of addressing the last line of the file, address the line > with [end] at B.o.L.) > > N But thanks anyway folks, I'll be trying them out tomorrow when I have more time, so I'll reply better and with a fuller response then. Sharon.
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