command line access from a menu

[madra]

I'm trying to add an option to our Ops bespoke menu (I'm not a great scripter!), whereby they can be given command line access. Similar to the F9 in smit.

How is this done ?

thanks in advance,

madra


I only ask stupid questions because I'm thick

 

[p5wizard]

How good is your operators' basic AIX training?
How good is your backup schedule? Tried and tested AND OK'd?
Generally a bad idea! I'd script around any shell activity your operators might need...

Something very basic:

while true
do
 tput clear
 echo "MENU
...
S for Shell
...
Choice? \c"
 typeset -u choice
 read choice
 case $choice in
  ...
  S*)
   echo "Use exit+ENTER or ctrl-D to return to menu"
   ksh
   ;;
 esac
done

HTH,

p5wizard