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Old 01-30-2009
Storing Command Line Values
Hi,
I am trying to read the value passed by the user and store it in a variable so that later I can read it from the variable. But I am getting errors. Can you please help? Thanks.

Code:
$ECHO "Enter the Country for which you want the installation to be executed? (US/India):"
read COUNTRY
if [ "$COUNTRY" = "us" -o "$COUNTRY" = "US" ]
then
$COUNTRY="US"
else
$COUNTRY="India"
fi
$echo "The installation is for: $COUNTRY"

Execution Result:
./Country_Test.sh: line 4: Enter the Country for which you want the installation to be executed?: command not found
us
./Country_Test.sh: line 8: us=US: command not found
./Country_Test.sh: line 13: The installation is for: us: command not found
# 2  
Old 01-30-2009
Code:
echo "Enter the Country for which you want the installation to be executed? (US/India):"
read COUNTRY
if [ "$COUNTRY" = "us" -o "$COUNTRY" = "US" ]
then
    COUNTRY="US"
else
    COUNTRY="India"
fi
echo "The installation is for: $COUNTRY"

# 3  
Old 01-30-2009
$ECHO makes no sense. The command is echo.

To be independent from the case of the characters that have been input, you can use this:

Code:
cat mach.ksh:


echo "Enter the Country for which you want the installation to be executed? (US/India):"

read COUNTRY

COUNTRY=`echo ${COUNTRY} | tr -s '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`

case ${COUNTRY} in
        us)     COUNTRY="US";;
        india)  COUNTRY="India";;
esac

echo Country: ${COUNTRY}

Example:
Code:
./mach.ksh
Enter the Country for which you want the installation to be executed? (US/India):
uS
Country: US

./mach.ksh
Enter the Country for which you want the installation to be executed? (US/India):
iNdIA
Country: India

Last edited by zaxxon; 01-30-2009 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: Corrected formatting
# 4  
Old 01-30-2009
No duplicate or cross-posting, please read the rules.

Double post of:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...#post302281977

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