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Hi,

I tell you what i thinks we are getting confused, here is the full source code for the script im writing, run it and hit X to exit and i get an error. Type in a wrong number and it errors also...

so the eq means if its not equal to 1 then its not correct? is that right?

well i haven't used the else in a script but for instance

if [ $choice = 1 ]

then

echo "cool its working"

exit 1

else

echo "not working try again"

sh andy1

fi

is...

Sorry to be a pain, but how does the else work in the if statements?

Ive been making scripts with if statements but i cant get the else statements working.

Can you help?

This is the code, but when i enter an if statement saying if greater that 12 the echo an error message but when im typing X in to exit its saying its an incorrect character entered but i thought that...

That worked but now im getting an error when an incorrect character is entered. Any ideas?

I keep getting an error message in a script im writing, this line is allways pointed out.

if [ $choice =1 ]

and this is the message i keep getting.

line 32: [: 8: unary operator expected
...

Thanks all sorted.

Also, How can i zip all the subfolders in a directory aswell?

How can i zip all files in a directory is they have no extensions on the files, Zip cannot see them.

Please Help

I cant seem to get it working my code is set up like this:

read ans

if [ $ans = X ]

then

echo "Thanks For Using Logit, Goodbye" $fname $lname


exit 1

else
echo "Wrong...

Is it possible to enter data into a read command and automatically enter, for instance

read name
echo "Andy" /r


could this work cos it doesn't seem to be working for me!

Hi,

I am writing a script and need to goto the start of the script if an incorrect command is wrongly entered what can i do.

Andy

1) I dunno is it SSH?

2) Sorry i meant in a script.

im working in secure crt and for instance im writing a script to run the ping command to test if its recieving but the command goes on so long i want to stop it half way through.

Hi,

Two things really:
1) can you input a code to pause a program until a key is pressed?
2) can you stop a command during a cycle?

Thanks im having so much fun learning this it takes me back to the days of qbasic and writing batch files but on a more extreme scale.

Thanks

Thanks for the help it worked!
Also how would i shut down a command half way through its cycle in a script?

Andy

Hi,

Is there any way like in dos to turn the echo off in a script? i have some lines popping up that i dont wish to be viewed when i am unziping a file it brings up the message updating: log.txt...

Hi,

This is the code im running, now where it says log.txt i want to put a line of code in to create a new file each time and adjust the other log entries

#!/bin/sh
echo STARTING......
date...

Sorry im really new here this is my second post today!

My question is, im trying to write a script and i want to output to a text file but i want each text file to be different so for instance...

thanks guys that worked!

I am a beginner and im writing my first script, i am using the code date >log.txt but everytime i run the script the text gets overwritten. how can i keep this code but have it paste in the line...