nails,

my program should follow a general syntax:
-s for displaying contacts specified, -a creates contact aking for nickname, firstname,lastname and number of the contact; -d for deleting a contact; -e editing details of an existing contact; -m invokes the simple menu interface
and -h for help screen that shows how to use the command.

i have started it but i font know hnow to make these commands function... huhuhuhu... but i have made the other scripts....

thanks for the help....

Have a look at getopts.

can you help me with these scripts??
i am to call a function first.. here is my function...

-a ()
{

let -a="cat"
echo "Enter your name:"
read name
}

question is how can i save this to my phonebook so that i can view the file?

should i used grep?

thanks for the help