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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting trouble looping in script Post 302581729 by ahamed101 on Wednesday 14th of December 2011 01:10:49 AM
Old 12-14-2011
Are you looking for something like this?

Code:
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Please enter test case name : " testcasename

while true
do
  read -p "Please enter in field 1 Version : " version
  if [[ "${#version}" -lt 4 ]] ; then
    echo  $version >> $testcasename
  else
    read -p "Invalid Data. Do you want to continue Y/N? : " CHOICE
    test "$CHOICE" = "N" && break
  fi
  read -p "Please enter date : " DATE
  if [[ "${#DATE}" -lt 9 ]] ; then
    echo  $date >> $testcasename
  else
    read -p "Invalid Data. Do you want to continue Y/N? : " CHOICE
    test "$CHOICE" = "N" && break
  fi
  read -p "Do you want to continue Y/N? : " CHOICE
  test "$CHOICE" = "N" && break
done

--ahamed
 

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