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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Unix Shell Script to prompt customer for name etc Post 302464509 by zaxxon on Wednesday 20th of October 2010 10:37:16 AM
Old 10-20-2010
When someone enters the information, it should not be lost when the script terminates. So you will have to write the information on harddisk in just a plain text file. Best would be to use some symbol as separator to keep the fields separated. One line will represent one data set of a customer.

Code:
DATFILE=./customer.dat

echo "Enter your name:> \c"
read name

echo "Enter....
....
...

echo "$name:$age:$address:$phone" >> $DATFILE

After you're done with it, cat the customer.dat to see it's contents.

Next step will be to think about how you will retrieve this info stored in that text file - there are several options how to do that. What field or string should be able to be searched for - how will the result be displayed etc. ie. should all infos be displayed or only some.
 

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