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Old 12-03-2007
How to program

Hi,
Can anyone help me how to program this

enter id number: 1111 --> any number no validation
enter name :Jose ---> any name no validaytion

after entering a name it will create a name data.txt

Content of data.txt should
1111
Jose

many thanks for the help
# 2  
Old 12-03-2007
Code:
read number
read name
echo $number >> data.txt
echo $name >> data.txt

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# 3  
Old 12-03-2007
thanks for the help...appreciate it .... grial
# 4  
Old 12-03-2007
here the complete program

#!/bin/ksh

echo "enter the id"
read id
echo "enter the name"
read name

if [ "$name" == "rose" ] && [ $id == 1111 ]
then
echo "u r logged in"
echo $name >> data.txt
echo $id >> data.txt
else
echo "invalid id or name"
fi
# 5  
Old 12-03-2007
it works! both. many thanks....more power to the unix guru!
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