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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers shell script - loop to countdown Post 11101 by froggwife on Wednesday 28th of November 2001 11:35:49 PM
Old 11-29-2001
Data shell script - loop to countdown
I am taking a class in UNIX and have written a script that needs to countdown from a number that is read in from the keyboard to zero. If no number is given the start of the countdown should default to 10.

I can't get this to do the default

#! /bin/sh
echo Enter a number here to countdown from a number to 0
read x
if [ -n $x ]; then
count=$x
else
count=10
fi

while [ $count -ge 0 ]

do
echo $count seconds
count=`expr $count - 1`
done
echo Off we go!


Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
 

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TPING(1)							   LAM COMMANDS 							  TPING(1)

NAME

       tping - Send echo messages to LAM nodes.

SYNOPSIS

       tping [-hv] [-c count] [-d delay] [-l length] nodes

OPTIONS

       -h	     Print the command help menu.

       -v	     Turn OFF verbose mode.

       -c count      Send count messages.

       -d delay      Delay delay seconds between each message.

       -l length     Each message is length bytes long.

DESCRIPTION

       The  tping  command  sends  messages  to,  and  collects replies from, a list of nodes, via the LAM echo server.  It is similar to the UNIX
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EXAMPLES

       tping h
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BUGS

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