Can anybody help me get started with this?
I need to write a script that asks the user for integer values, one at a time. Add up the integers and prints the current total, before prompting for thenext integer. This script will work until "x" is detected. Once the "x" is detected print the final total and quit.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks

UnixNewbie

In ksh,

read varname?"prompt message: "

populates $varname with user input.

One-liner for bash:

sum=0 ; until [[ $var = x ]] ; do echo -e "Total so far: $sum\nType an integer or 'x' to end" ; read var ; ((sum+=$var)) ;done ; echo "Final total: $sum" ; unset var sum

Probably needs recent bash version.

what about cshell? how do i ask for input? echo '??

I couldn't see anything about prompting for input in the man pages, so unless I'm missing something add another limitation to the list.

Why would you want to use csh?