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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with if-else construct Post 302467852 by arikutex on Sunday 31st of October 2010 06:10:52 PM
Old 10-31-2010
Help with if-else construct
Hi all

i have been trying to do a small 'question and answer' script using if-else statement and a combination of pipe. I have succeeded in allowing the user to login with user name and password stored in a sequence username/password in a file named "pass" like this:

Code:
echo "please enter your name"
read i
echo "please enter your password"
read j
userName=$i"/"$j

      grep -n $userName $HOME/testing/pass > $HOME/testing/temp

valid=`cut -f2 -d':' $HOME/testing/temp`

if [ $valid = $userName ]
then

echo "success"
else 
echo "failure"
fi

After a successful login, questions and options answers are displayed for the user to choose from example

3.) What is the capital of The United States of America?
a.) Texas
b) Florida
c) Washington D.C
d) Chicago

. The user after selecting the right one (like c in this case) should enter 'p' for previous, 'n' for next question and 'q' to quit the test and then see his result. My challenge is how to direct or redirect the user to any of these options.
I am currently working on a timer for the script using the 'sleep' command.

Please i would be very grateful if someone can help me.

Thanks.
Last edited by Scott; 11-01-2010 at 05:13 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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nautilus-scripts-manager

NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)				      General Commands Manual				       NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)

NAME

       nautilus-scripts-manager - easy tool for nautilus scripts management

SYNOPSIS

       nautilus-scripts-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the nautilus-scripts-manager command.

       nautilus-scripts-manager is a program that allows any user to easily manage installed Nautilus scripts.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

COMMANDS

       One (and only one) of the following commands can be passed:

       -e, --enable=ENABLE
	      Enable script ENABLE.

       -d, --disable=DISABLE
	      Disable script DISABLE.

       -l, --list-enabled
	      List enabled scripts.

       -a, --list-available
	      List available scripts.

       If no command is provided, the graphical interface is started.

OPTIONS

       -e, --position=POSITION
	      In conjunction with -e or -d: establish the position of the script (can be just a name, or a path with slashes - quote it if it con-
	      tains spaces).

SEE ALSO

       nautilus(1),

AUTHOR

       nautilus-scripts-manager and this manual page were written by Pietro Battiston <me@pietrobattiston.it>.

       This manual page was written for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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