[OpenIndiana-discuss] timeout display for input prompt

[Thebest videos]

excellent!. it works. thanks a lot

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:56 PM Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 8, 2021, at 06:11, Thebest videos <sri.chityala504 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > great! that works. but i have another problem. i'm using prompt in
> secured
> > way as "read -s -t 10" but I need to store the output in one variable. as
> > below. but nothing is storing in $req variable
> >
> > #!/bin/csh
> >
> > set pass=`cat file | grep rootpw | grep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g'`
>
> Useless cat award. Instead of
>         cat file | grep rootpw
> use
>         grep rootpw file
>
>
> > if ( "$pass" == "edjos" ) then
> >
> >   echo  "You are at default password. kindly change the password in
> > 10secs……."
> >
> > set req=`bash -c 'read -s -t 10'`
>
> No, my previous example was precise. The bash needs to echo the variable
> read (or ${REPLY} if no variable was given on the read command), because
> the output of the bash command is what takes the place of the command
> substitution in the csh. The quoting needs care to get right, too.
>
> set req=`bash -c 'read -s -t 10 ;echo "${REPLY}"'`
>
>
> > echo $req
> >
> >     if ( "$req" == "" ) then
> >
> >       echo "No password entered. So continuing with default password"
> >
> >    else
> >
> >      sed -i.bak "/rootpw/s/edjos/$req/"  file
> >
> >   endif
> >
> > endif
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:02 PM Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> If it has to be pure csh (without any helpers), you're probably out of
> >> luck, because csh is crippled when it comes to scripting.
> >>
> >> You could probably use a command substitution on a one-liner of your
> bash
> >> from the csh script:
> >>
> >> #! /bin/csh
> >> set myvar=`bash -c 'read -t 10 ;echo "${REPLY}"'`
> >> echo "$myvar"
> >>
> >> For anything much trickier, getting the quoting right will be a killer,
> so
> >> the helper should probably be a separate bash script.
> >>
> >> Picking csh to script it is just wrong, because it has too many missing
> >> capabilities, isn't predictable enough in how it behaves, doesn't
> >> necessarily behave as portably as other shells, etc.
> >> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ <
> >> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Mar 8, 2021, at 04:38, Thebest videos <sri.chityala504 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> hi Team,
> >>>
> >>> Im trying create a csh script.
> >>> requirement:
> >>> when i script runs it asks for user input. prompt should wait for
> 10secs.
> >>> if not then exit the script.
> >>> i have solution for bash script where i can use read -t 10 username.
> but
> >> i
> >>> want same in csh
> >>> ```
> >>> #!/bin/csh
> >>> echo -n "username:"
> >>> set req = $<
> >>> echo "username is $req"
> >>> sed -i.bak "/rootpw/s/edjos/$req/" /boot/loader.conf
> >>> ```
> >>> and for advance level, the message should look like "prompts end in
> >> 10(this
> >>> number should decrease and lively should visible the timeout secs)"
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