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03-22-2003

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Hello There!
I am trying to write this SIMPLE script in Bourne Shell but I keep on getting syntax errors. Can you see what I am doing wrong? I've done this before but I don't see the difference. I am simply trying to take the day of the week from our system and when the teachers sign on I want them to see the message of the day, when they exe "Schedule" (the name of this script).

Code:

#!/bin/sh
case $day in

 Mon) echo '1st grade please meet in front office conference rm at 2 pm.';;
 Tue) echo 'No school for students';;
 Wed) echo 'Kindegarten, Jane will meet you in Saban's room.';;
 Thu) echo 'Short Faculty meeting in Media Center.';;

 Fri) echo 'Please remind parents to sign in at front office!';;
 Sat) echo 'If you are on VPDN, please be sure to logout';;
 Sun) echo 'Why are you working?, Its Sunday!';;
#
#
esac

added code tags for readability --oombera

Last edited by oombera; 02-19-2004 at 04:17 PM..

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