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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Input validation ? Post 302069485 by systemali on Monday 27th of March 2006 02:47:59 AM
Old 03-27-2006
This is what i have :-

Quote:
#!/bin/sh

PACKAGE=""
echo "\n\tPlease, enter package name to import: \c"
read PACKAGE
if [ !z "$PACKAGE" ]
then
echo "Package is empty"
exit 0
fi
If i dont enter the package name i get :-

Quote:
./x.sh: test: argument expected
Thanks
 

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