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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Help with simple script with counter Post 302922466 by silencep77 on Saturday 25th of October 2014 02:23:24 AM

10-25-2014

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Thanks for the input. I am not sure the other suggested shell scripts work in my bash shell, and the professor wants it a specific way. My script now looks like this.

Code:

     1  count=1
     2  if [ -d "$1" ]
     3    then
     4    echo "The diretory $1 exists."
     5  else
     6    echo "The directory $1 does not exist."
     7  fi
     8   if [ -e "$1" ]
     9    then
    10  echo "The file $1 exists and has the following properties: "
    11  fi
    12  echo "Please enter another filename or an x to exit the script: "
    13  while [ "$filename" != "x" ]
    14  do
    15  read filename
    16   if [ -r "$1" ]
    17    then
    18    echo -n "Read. "
    19   fi
    20   if [ -w "$1" ]
    21   then
    22   echo -n "Write. "
    23  fi
    24   if [ -x "$1" ]
    25   then
    26   echo -n "Execute."
    27  fi
    28  echo " "
    29  if [ -k "$1" ]
    30   then
    31   echo "Sticky bit is set."
    32   else
    33   echo "Sticky bit is not set."
    34  fi
    35  if [ -s "$1" ]
    36   then
    37   echo "The file is not empty."
    38   else
    39   echo "The file is empty."
    40  fi
    41  COUNTER=`expr $COUNTER + 1`
    42  echo "Please enter a filename or an x to exit the script: "
    43  read filename
    44  done
    45  echo "$COUNTER"

The problem is no matter what file I test it against it doesn't seem to be reading "$1". It only outputs

Code:

Read. Write.
Sticky bit is not set.
The file is not empty.
Please enter another filename or an x to exit the script:

. Even when I press x to exit, it will output the above and then exit. The counter still doesn't seem to be working properly. Thanks in advance

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