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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting statement Post 302110011 by Ernst on Friday 9th of March 2007 12:53:44 PM
Old 03-09-2007
I am looking to write a statement that allow me to contimue when the user enters Yes and exit the program if the user enters no. Let me know whta you guys think. what is wrong with my if statement?




cat conversion
#! /usr/bin/ksh
echo "This program is designed to do measurement conversion"
echo "Enter yard"
read yard
echo "The result in feet is:"
expr $yard '*' 3
echo "Do you want to convert from feet to yard as well?"
echo "Please enter your answer"
echo "please enter yes to continue or no to exit:"
read
if
($answer = yes) &&

echo "You have entered yes:"
then
echo "please enter feet"
read feet
echo "The result in yard is:"
expr $feet / 3
else
clear
fi
 

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yard

YARD(1) 																   YARD(1)

NAME

       yard - documentation tool for Ruby

SYNOPSIS

       yard command [options]

DESCRIPTION

       yard is an extensible documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable
       documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as
       custom class level definitions.

       Below are listed the commands that can be passed to the yard on the command line. For more details about a command, use yard help command
       from the command line.

COMMANDS

       config
	   Views or edits current global configuration

       diff
	   Returns the object diff of two gems or .yardoc files

       doc Generates documentation. yardoc(1) is a synonym of yard doc.

       gems
	   Builds YARD index for gems

       graph
	   Graphs class diagram using Graphviz

       help
	   Retrieves help for a command

       i18n
	   Generates .pot file from source code and extra documentation

       list
	   Lists all constant and methods. Uses yard doc --list.

       ri  A tool to view documentation in the console like ri(1). yri(1) is a synonym of yard ri.

       server
	   Runs a local documentation server

       stats
	   Prints documentation statistics on a set of files

SEE ALSO

       yardoc(1), yri(1).

AUTHORS

       yard has been developed by Loren Segal <lsegal@soen.ca>.

       This manual page has been written for the Debian Project by Cedric Boutillier (but may used by others).

								    2012-05-06								   YARD(1)
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