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So, here I am with another question.
But this one is a bit more complicated, at
least... for me that I've never programmed seriously in the years I've been
using the computer.
I have to create an user interface which allows
inexperienced users of the Linux commands to launch a program, which might be
called, e.g., arui (amanda restore user interface), select a path containing the
backup sets (obviously, from a menu list!), choose a date (always from a menu)
and according to the previous mentioned information, amrecover would be executed
with the two parameters. At this point, the list of files present in the
directory should be shown as a checklist menu where the user can decide which
file(s) to restore (fro example, after a wrong delete operation).
Well, after having explained my aim, I inform you
that what I've reached in a month of work is only the following that my script
is able to do:
a. asking, with an echo & read statement, to
select an arbitrary path;
b. printing the selected directory;
c. showing a menu (created with dialog --calendar)
from which choose a date, that is redirected with the 2> parameter to a
temporary file.
Also, the path is written to a file called input.
So, amrecover reads as input parameters the setdisk and setdate commands from
the two input files, and correctly sets the working date. But for what concerns
the directory... it says something like:
you must configure host before...
ops, I can't remember well the exact waring
entirely!
And from the Linux machine it's a bit difficult to
send mail using Mutt, I don't know why!
Anyway: apart from the little detail of setting the
disk (that is always a little problem to solve) the bigger thing to complete is
how to let amrecover understand the output, for example, of dialog --fselect or
ls -1 command.
In fact, amrecover can't read as input the dialog
command, nor is the -1 switch of ls valid for it.
And I don't have any kind of idea on how to give
amrecover the list of files as a menu with checkboxes, so that when a user
selects the file(s) and clicks the OK button, the file(s) is/are added to
the list and extracted (add and extract amrecover's command, ndr).
And, to finish this speech, do you think that bash
would be efficient? By myself, I do think so, because I don't know other
language beside to: bash, pascal and basic for DOS and stop!
I tell you, once more time, thank you very much for
supporting me!
Have a good time
Stefano
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