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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Easy if conditional question. Post 302401512 by SlickStretch on Saturday 6th of March 2010 02:26:24 PM
Old 03-06-2010
Question Easy if conditional question.

I'm just starting this whole scripting thing, and I'm trying to write a simple script which will ask the user to press a key between 3-7. If they press a key that's not between 3-7, it will tell the user such.

Here's my script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

blah=1
echo -n "Press a key from 3-7."
read -n 1 -s blah
if [ $blah > 3 ]
then
        if [ $blah < 7 ]
        then
        echo "You entered $blah, that works."
        else
        echo "You entered $blah, that's too high."
        fi
else
echo "You entered $blah, that's too low."
fi
exit

 

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