11-02-2010
Honestly i am very grateful for your reply and its really getting clearer but i need some help with
this 'sed' statement. I was thinking that putting the questions in a separate 'questions' file and also redirecting the answers to a separate file 'answers' will make the script more robust and secure. Then i can call various lines of the questions individually. eg if i have this question in a separate file
3. What is the capital of the United States of America?
a) Florida
b) Chicago
c) Washington D.C
d) none of these
Enter answer
i can say "sed -n '1,5' ~/home/testing/questions
read answer
$answer > /home/testing/answers
to call the question. Another issue will be how i will compare this supplied answers
with the file 'right answers' containing the right answers and then display to the student
from the 'display' script file because the student should be able to access this display script
like say one week later to see his result again. Please can you help me with this?
Thanks so much.
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NAME
git-sh-setup - Common Git shell script setup code
SYNOPSIS
. "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup"
DESCRIPTION
This is not a command the end user would want to run. Ever. This documentation is meant for people who are studying the Porcelain-ish
scripts and/or are writing new ones.
The git sh-setup scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using .) by other shell scripts to set up some variables pointing at the normal Git
directories and a few helper shell functions.
Before sourcing it, your script should set up a few variables; USAGE (and LONG_USAGE, if any) is used to define message given by usage()
shell function. SUBDIRECTORY_OK can be set if the script can run from a subdirectory of the working tree (some commands do not).
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