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i am new to shell scripting!! i am making this program in bourne shell, that asks the user to input "Hello (their name)" or "question (their name)", any other input, "ERROR" will be outputted.
if they input "Hello (name)", i want to out saying Hello (name) but if they input "question (name)", i want to output "how are you (name)"!


anyone has any idea how to do this?

thanks

here is a simple example;

Code:

#!/bin/bash
Y=jeff
Z=joe
echo "enter your Name "
read X
echo " your name is $X"
if [ $X = jeff ]
then 
echo " hello jeff "
exit -1
else 
	if [ $X = $Z ]
		then
		echo -e " you are not jeff" ; 
		echo " you are $Z "
		echo " we love $Z "
	fi
fi
echo " "
echo " "
echo "goodbye $X"
exit

thanks for replaying doctorfoo1, but i want the user to enter the name! we dont know what the name is going to be, and they are meant to enter hello (name) or question (name) and the outputs are going to be different!!!

plzz help!!

thanks

doctorfoo1 was very clear in his post: He gave you an example, you dont expect other to do all the work for you...
You are left now with a sample script for you to adapt to fit your needs, we hope your next post will be your adaptation (using code tags ...) asking e.g. Is it possible to use a loop...
Before replying promptly as you did, I suggest you copy the given code and run it, you may would have asked then something else... (You did not run the code, did you?)

yes play with the other one. but here is a different approach

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo What is your name?
read MY_NAME
echo "Hello $MY_NAME - hope you're well."

;