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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Validating user input is not blank Post 302245408 by MBN on Friday 10th of October 2008 04:29:24 AM
Old 10-10-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by zaxxon
As a start:

Code:
while read a; do
     if [[ -z "${a}" ]]; then
          echo "That was empty, do it again!"
     else
          echo "Checking now..."
          break
     fi
done
echo out of the loop we go
exit 0

To test if a directory exists, use the -d switch of test or shell.
Yeah I have the directory thing sorted but having trouble with the above Smilie


Code:
#!/bin/bash
 
cd /home/
 
echo -n "Enter Users Name : "
read name
while read a; do
     if [[ -z "${a}" ]]; then
          echo "That was empty, do it again!"
     else
          echo "Checking now..."
          break
     fi
done
# End of the loop
exit 0
 
if [ -d $name ]; then
echo That User Exists
else
echo No Such User!!
fi

 

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