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the first line should be #!/bin/bash


and your read statment should look like this -- no $ in the variable name
read -p "Enter week you would like to delete files: " num

try ;)

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter week number or q to quit: " num
while [ $num != "q" ] ;
do
if [ $num -lt 4 ]
then
echo "The files submitted in week $num...

After fixing the bad test on the while statement, it worked for me in both bash and kshell.


#!/usr/bin/env ksh
echo "Enter week number or q to quit: "
read num
set -x #...