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help with a script

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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
write a script that will :
a) given the file name last_names exists in the current directory
b) use a loop to prompt for 5 text lines that the user can enter last name on
c) if the name entered is not in the file then add it to the file

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:

3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts

Code:

!/bin/bash  
 echo -n "Enter 5 last names"  
 read guess  
 for guess in 1 2 3 4 5  
 do  
 echo -n "Enter another last time: "  
 read name  
 if [ "$guess" -ne "$last_name" ]  
 then  
 echo "$guess" >> "$last_name"  
 else  
 echo "ok."  
 fi  
 done

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
EMU , MI , Linda Kinczkowski, NITA 412

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mkcover

MKCOVER(8)						      System Manager's Manual							MKCOVER(8)

NAME

       mkcover - HylaFAX continuation cover page generation command

SYNOPSIS

       /var/spool/hylafax/bin/mkcover qfile template result

DESCRIPTION

       bin/mkcover  is the command invoked by the facsimile server when a continuation cover page is required for an outbound job that is about to
       be retried.  It generates a single POSTSCRIPT(R) page that is imaged according to the remote capabilities  and  transmitted  as	the  cover
       page.  The arguments are:

       qfile	 the job description file for the outbound job.

       template  the cover page template file, as used by the faxcover(1) program.

       result	 the filename where the resultant POSTSCRIPT document should be written.

       The default mkcover command is a shell script that uses awk(1) to parse the job description file and generate the cover page document.  The
       template file may be optionally compressed with compress(1), pack(1), or gzip(1); the filename suffix is used to decide whether or not  the
       template file contains compressed data.

SEE ALSO

       faxq(8), hylafax-config(5), sendq(5)

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