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Ha figured it out. Apparently I was right about it not liking to count arguments in a variable, it had to be added inthe command line when the script itself was called.
Thanks for your help all. My...

YAY! it's finnaly all working correctly. I needed both "" around the single input variables and the 2 input variables so now it recognises input with "" as one input not two. Thankyou both very much...

Hi all,
I'm writing a program that scans a file for a name and/or number the user enters ie:
$ sh phone.sh "Sally Turner"
or
$ sh phone.sh Bob 12345678

I've got it mostly working except when...

Okay it turned out that no matter what I do $# wasn't returning anything but 0 which is why it wasn't working correctly. I'm looking into the problem now.

Is it perhaps because its an inputted value inside the program so it doesn't count as a command line? That might be why it's not counting arguments. Is there a way to remove the need for the user...

Yay! thanks for that. I got the check numbers grep thing working fine but it still seems to have a problem with how many arguments were entered. If i use [ -n $2 ] it just runs like there is one no...

lol well my next question was how do I determine input is digits or not?
I tried the if echo $1 | grep -qv '[^0-9-]'
but it doesn't appear to accept it as false if I enter a name ie enter 12345678...

Thanks for your help.
Well the first variable is 1 argument or 2, then (if 1) number or name then validating the number or name then checking if the number/name is in the document (if 2) validating...

I'm writing a program that takes input from the user of a phone number or a name then either tells them if that entry doesn't exist in a text document or returns the entry if it does exist. But if...

Hey!
Thankyou for your help. It works great now
:D

Hi!
I'm writing a program that test wich users are on

who | cut -d' ' -f1 > users

echo "The current users are: "
sort users

then enters a loop that will wait 5 seconds then test which...

Thanks for that. I shall try it.

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Wow that was easy! I thought it would end up extremely complex. Thank...

Hi all,
I'm writing a program in bourne shell that compresses a file 3 different ways then displays a table of data with the compression type, original file size, compressed size and compression...