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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Arithmetic Problem with shell script programming. Post 302476012 by ctsgnb on Tuesday 30th of November 2010 02:32:15 PM
Old 11-30-2010
the synthax of a while loop is for example :

Code:
while [ condition ]
do
<some command>
done

by the way, you should also take a look at the += operator so that you can pass the read value as the incremental value of the sum that would be updated "on the fly"

You also could consider the
Code:
while :
do
...
done

the colon means /bin/true (this is for making endless loop).
to go out of the while loop, you could use break (exit would take you out of the script)

You can also have an eye to the trap command so you could handle a scenario like :
the script always ask number (infinite loop)
when the user want to display the sum, he press <Cntrl>+<C> key.
That will raise a INT signal that can be trapped (see trap command) to get out of the wile loop and display the sum.

I could write it but that wouldn't help you to learn, so now i think you have enough clue to go on Smilie

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NAME
jrunscript - command line script shell SYNOPSIS
jrunscript [ options ] [ arguments... ] PARAMETERS
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jrunscript is a command line script shell. jrunscript supports both an interactive (read-eval-print) mode and a batch (-f option) mode of script execution. This is a scripting language independent shell. By default, JavaScript is the language used, but the -l option can be used to specify a different language. Through Java to scripting language communication, jrunscript supports "exploratory programming" style. NOTE: This tool is experimental and may not be available in future versions of the JDK. OPTIONS
-classpath path Specify where to find the user's .class files that are accessed by the script. -cp path This is a synonym for -classpath path -Dname=value Set a Java system property. -Jflag Pass flag directly to the Java virtual machine on which jrunscript is run. -l language Use the specified scripting language. By default, JavaScript is used. Note that to use other scripting languages, you also need to spec- ify the corresponding script engine's jar file using -cp or -classpath option. -e script Evaluate the given script. This option can be used to run "one liner" scripts specified completely on the command line. -encoding encoding Specify the character encoding used while reading script files. -f script-file Evaluate the given script file (batch mode). -f - Read and evaluate a script from standard input (interactive mode). -help Output help message and exit. -? Output help message and exit. -q List all script engines available and exit. ARGUMENTS
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