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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting basic script for yes and no answers Post 302192293 by Dave Miller on Tuesday 6th of May 2008 03:41:45 PM
Old 05-06-2008
Do you want someone here to write the script for you? Not gonna happen. However, if you write something, someone here can help yo figure out what went wrong if it doesn't work.

That said, here's some help to get you started:

Use the echo command to display something, the read comand to get a user reply, and the test function to check the reply.

YES. You CAN call another script (or command line function, or whatever) from within a script. And whether or not you need the complete path is dependent upon the $PATH of the user that is running it. Suffice to say, it can't hurt.

Note that in your brief logic, you have it saying that it started AFTER it finished! You should put that line ABOVE the line where you go to the other script.
 

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