Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello There,

I am trying to write this SIMPLE script in Bourne Shell but I keep on getting a blank response. Can you see what I am doing wrong? I am simply trying to take the day of the week from our system and when the teachers sign on I want them to see the message of the day, when they exe "Schedule" (the name of this script). I had some help on the Dummies Q&A board but I still can't see what's wrong. I would appreciate any ideas.



case $day in
0) echo 'why are you working';;
1) echo 'comment 2';;
2) echo 'comment 3.';;
3) echo 'comment 4/reminder.';;
4) echo 'comment6.';;
5) echo 'meetings?';;
6) echo 'vpdn reminders';;
esac

#!/usr/bin/sh
WEEKDAY=`date '+%w'`
echo "weekday is : $WEEKDAY"

case $WEEKDAY in
0) echo 'why are you working';;
1) echo 'comment 2';;
2) echo 'comment 3.';;
3) echo 'comment 4/reminder.';;
4) echo 'comment6.';;
5) echo 'meetings?';;
6) echo 'vpdn reminders';;
esac


Written and tested under Solaris 9 SPARC but should work
on any unixsystem that will return weekday with date %w

Hope this helps!

/Peter

This is a duplicate thread. The other thread is here.

Catbad, please do not post the same question twice. I will close this thread.