I'm using the Korn shell on my UNIX box. For some reason, I thought I had to treat an alphanumeric differently than a numeric; now that I have looked over my script, I noted what the problem was (a...
I am working on a shell program that needs to accept alpha-numeric input (i.e., P00375); when I use a simple 'read' statement to read in the input (i.e., read LOG), I receive the message "p00375: bad...