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Fixed it!

My syntax for the while loop that checked STATE was bad. In bash, you have to use -a instead of &&:


while [ "$STATE" != "MI" -a "$STATE" != "OH" -a "$STATE" != "IL" -a "$STATE" !=...

I'm working on a script for class as a final project. We have to ask for values (city, state, zip) five times, but the state can only be MI, IN, IL, or OH. I'm trying to do this with a while loop...

And just like that... hours and hours of work is fixed. That's what I get for being a noob haha :wall:

Many thanks!

Well that explains a lot! The more you know...

And the script is telling me the variables aren't equal because a tar file includes the directory, and an ls doesn't.

Hey all! I'm in an intro to UNIX class at university, and we've just began writing scripts. Naturally I can't get it to do what I want.

Basic script as follows:


COMPARE1=`ls|wc -l`
tar czf...