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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Testing Data Type of User Input Post 302884222 by bakunin on Saturday 18th of January 2014 02:59:37 PM
Old 01-18-2014
What have your tried so far? Because this looks suspiciously like homework/classwork and for such questions there is a special forum.

Further, regardless of being homework or not, it generally helps if you describe the environment you are working with: which shell are you using, on which UNIX/Linux systems does this have to run, what are the data types you expect and want to test, etc., etc. ...

I suggest you first explain what you want to do in more detail, only then we can really help you at all.

bakunin
 

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PCSCTEST(8)							    User Manual 						       PCSCTEST(8)

NAME

       pcsctest

SYNOPSIS

       pcsctest

DESCRPTION

       pcsctest runs a test on pcscd, lists the readers currently connected, and displays card information if a card is inserted.

OPTIONS

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USAGE

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	 Testing SCardEstablishContext	  : Command successful.
	 Testing SCardGetStatusChange

       Once a reader is inserted and recognized the following will occur:

	 MUSCLE PC/SC Lite Test Program

	 Testing SCardEstablishContext	  : Command successful.
	 Testing SCardGetStatusChange
	 Please insert a working reader   : Command successful.
	 Testing SCardListReaders	  : Command successful.
	 Reader 01: SCM SCR-331 CCID 0 0
	 Enter the reader number	  : 1

	 Waiting for card insertion
					  : Command successful.
	 Testing SCardConnect		  : Command successful.
	 Testing SCardStatus		  : Command successful.
	 Current Reader Name		  : CCID USB Reader 0 0
	 Current Reader State		  : 34
	 Current Reader Protocol	  : 0
	 Current Reader ATR Size	  : 9
	 Current Reader ATR Value	  : 3B E2 00 00 04 03 00
	 Testing SCardDisconnect	  : Command successful.
	 Testing SCardReleaseContext	  : Command successful.

	 PC/SC Test Completed Successfully !

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