THank you for the replies! Please bear with me as I am obviously very new to unix and scripting.

Dave Miller:
Can you break this down for me?
read answer
ans=`cat $answer"N" | cut -c1-1 | tr "y" "Y"`
if [ $ans = "Y" ]

1. since it says read answer should the $ be answer instead of ans?
2. I dont understand this syntax: ans=`cat $answer"N" | cut -c1-1 | tr "y" "Y"`
why cat $answer"N"
cut portion I know means cut the first colum of the answer so the first letter what is the -1
tr I know mean so change so is that saying if the user puts a lower case y change it an uppercase?


denn - is the reason you prefer case is because there are multiple answers and even lower case, uppercase answers etc?

Thanks!!!