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begginner shell script help ASAP!
Name: vampiretodd Date: February 17, 2003 at 16:48:17 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 315
Comment:
hi guys, i really need some help asap. Im taking an OS class and we barely skimmed over Linux. We were asked a homework question that for the life of me i have no idea how to do. the qestion is... write a shell script that accepts a number from the user and displays the squares of all numbers from 1 up to that number as follows:
1 square=________ 2 square=________ : : n square=________ (n is the number entered)
PLease help if possible. its due tomorrow and i havent even begun to figure it out. Thanks! Todd
Name: David Perry Date: February 17, 2003 at 18:26:08 Pacific
Reply:
#!/bin/ksh if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then i=1 square_cnt=$1 while [ $i -le $square_cnt ] ; do ((square = $i * $i )) echo "$i square = $square" ((i = i + 1)) done else echo "ERROR. Please enter an integer" fi
You should make a sanity check to make sure someone does not pass a non-integer on the command line. Hope you get a good grade. O'Reilly has a nice book on KSH. For future questions, the unix list here is more adept at scripting questions.
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Name: vampiretodd Date: February 17, 2003 at 19:13:57 Pacific
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