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Old 12-23-2010
A very tough exercise

hello everyone!Smilie
I have an exercise which I think is difficult for beginner like me. Here is the exercise

Create a shell script, which takes a directory as command line argument.
Script displays ten first lines from every text file in that directory. After
displaying the lines from the file the script asks: “Do you want to remove this file?”
The answer yes or y or Yes or Y means that the script removes the file (use here case - statement).

If the file is not a normal text file, the script doesn't display it.
The script asks only “Do you want to remove this file?” Yes means remove.

Could you please tell me how to sort it out?
Thank you very very much!
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Old 12-23-2010
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