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I honestly thought that the code I had written was right, just needed tweaking to get rid of the error.

I'm assuming you pass the files in the directory to tail or head by using the -n option to...

I have tried the command and it came up with this:
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

$2 is a numeric value

Also the OS is Windows.

Right I understand what the special variables do.

I now get what you were talking about with $2, I only just realised I haven't actually used it.

However I still don't understand why it is not...

I get this
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'


I am new to unix as I said so I am guessing the arguments need to be in order
e.g.
$#
$1
$2
etc

All the directories I try have files in them.

I'm not sure what to do for binaries as I am fairly new to unix.

We haven't been told about what would happen if it was empty or contained binaries.

This is one of the commands I have been set so it must work surely.

I just put the $2 command there so that if a negative integer was entered, then it would prompt the user to enter a positive one.

I type in lshead -head 2 Documents (or whatever directory I want)

$0 = lshead command
$1 = -head/-tail
$2 = numeric value
$3 = directory

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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

Write a...

This is as part of an assignment.

And the operating system we are using is Windows

I need to create digit day script that takes a single numeric argument and then it should print out the day of the week using the number modulo 7 formula e.g: 0 - Sunday 6- Saturday 131 - Friday

I...