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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with simple IF statements Post 302458739 by ygemici on Friday 1st of October 2010 03:12:11 PM
Old 10-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gemster
Thanks ygemici, it works but ive had to change the coding a little and your script dont work now :/

Code:
read -p 'Bot Nickname:' ecnick
read -p 'Bot Username:' ecusername
read -p 'Bot realname:' ecrealname

So basically if the Nickname is not entered it wall ask for it again and again untill its entered then it will go the the username and so on.

Also I dont need the tries part of it Smilie

Thanks
Gemster
"tries " is a little sample from me Smilie

lets try this Smilie

Code:
#!/bin/bash
while :;
 do
  read -p 'Bot Nickname:' ecnick
  if [ -z "$ecnick" ] ; then
    read -p 'Bot Nickname:' ecnick
  else
    echo Your Bots Nick Is $ecnick
    read -p 'Bot Username:' ecusername
    read -p 'Bot realname:' ecrealname
    break
  fi
 done

 

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WHATIS(5)							File Formats Manual							 WHATIS(5)

NAME
whatis - database of online manual pages SYNOPSIS
/usr/man/*/whatis /usr/man/whatis DESCRIPTION
The whatis file in each manual page directory is a database of titles for manual pages. This database is used by man(1) to map titles to manual pages names. The database is created by makewhatis(1) from the NAME sections of the manual pages. The NAME secions must be simple lines with no troff fluff but one backslash like these two: whatis - database of online manual pages cawf, nroff - C version of the nroff-like, Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter These lines are transformed by makewhatis to these two lines for the database: cawf, nroff (1) - C version of the nroff-like, Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter whatis (5) - database of online manual pages As you can see they are in section number order, so that man searches them in section order. Each entry is just a single line, restricting the NAME section to a single line too with just one dash, and commas and spaces before the dash as you see above. SEE ALSO
man(1), whatis(1), makewhatis(1), man(7). BUGS
It seems to be impossible for many manual page writers to keep the NAME section simple. They also like to use every font available in their documents. My simple scripts can't read their NAME sections, my simple me can't read their texts. AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) WHATIS(5)
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