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07-02-2009
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Y or N in a Shell
Hello , ran into a problem
"I am using Vi," and Im mid way down in a BASH and Im trying to simply make a statement along the lines of simply Would you like to check the system , Y or N And run these functions when the Y or yes is given cat /etc/passwd | wc -l who | wc -l ps -e | wc -l Sorry for my Newness; brand new to this stuff  |
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07-02-2009
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smell like homework..
I will give you an idea either use switch case or if else for that.... to take i/p from user use read command.. give it a try.. |
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07-02-2009
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Say again . its not home work ...
I am trying to do this to show someone something , I have this Online thing from Mike Virtue teaching Noobies how to use Unix , and I am doing pretty well and I wanted to Surprise my father with this thing I am working on , Ill type what I have how about that ... Code:
echo "I will now continue to Help" echo "Would you like to know some helpful information on about your system" echo -n " Yes or No: " read answer if [ $answer = "y" ] ; then cat/etc/passwd who | who -l ps -e | wc -l Last edited by vidyadhar85; 07-02-2009 at 10:18 PM.. |
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07-02-2009
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you may want to take care of capital "Y" also
so type if [ $answer = "y" -o $answer = "Y" ] then or use switch case as case $answer in "Y"||"y")commands here;; *);; esac |
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07-02-2009
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can you post the exact code what you tried just now??
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07-06-2009
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you are most probably missing a quote (") somewhere
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