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Old 12-27-2003
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if then else structure
echo name the file that you want to read
read answer

if [ $# = 0 ]
then
echo you must enter a file name

fi
cat $answer


im trying to catch the error if user forget to enter the name of the file

anyone can help me ?
thanks
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