Homework & Coursework Questions

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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Hello,

My name is Jordan and studying at the New Bulgarian University in Sofiya. This is my homework but can not write the last two questions.

5. Why command exit, placed in a shell script follows:
(statements; exit)
will not finish the script? How do you overcome it.

6. Write a script that calculates the factorial of the number receiving
as an argument. Suggest variant control arguments.


2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:



3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):



4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):

New Bulgarian University, Sofiya. Teacher is N. Gadjev. Faculty number F49086

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The brackets cause the two commands to be executed in a subshell. Therefore the "exit" will only exit the subshell not the calling shell.

We need to tell the calling program that we want to exit. One way is to exit with a non-zero status and test that value in the calling script.

Code:

(statements; exit 2) ; REPLY=$?
if [ $REPLY -eq 2 ]
then
     exit
fi

simple factorial script:

Code:

#! /bin/ksh
n=$1
i=0
fact=1
while ((i<n)) ; do
        ((i=i+1))
        ((fact=fact*i))
done
echo $fact
exit 0