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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Debugging a beginner shell script... Post 302391888 by brokepunk on Tuesday 2nd of February 2010 08:28:19 PM
Old 02-02-2010
Debugging a beginner shell script...
I have been following a tutorial on bash which has proven to be very helpful. However, i am stuck with a command not found issue when asking for a y/n response from the user. Below is the part of code I believe is giving me grief... I have been trying to work through this for 3 hours now.... Please let me know if you see anything here or need a larger sample of code to review.
Thanks very much...

========================================================

Code:
if [ "$interactive" = "1" ]; then
        response=

        echo -n "Enter name of output file [$filename] > "
        read response
        if [ -n "$response" ]; then
             filename=$response
        fi
set -x

        if [ -f $filename ]; then
                echo -n "Output file exists. Overwrite? (y/n) > "
                read response
                if ["$response" != "y"]; then
                echo "Exiting Program"
                exit 1
        fi

fi
fi

set +x

===================================================
Last edited by pludi; 02-03-2010 at 02:26 AM.. Reason: code tags, please..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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