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Shell Scripting

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Name: bakibol
Date: September 30, 2009 at 22:06:53 Pacific
OS: UNIX
Product: Microsoft Windows powershell scripting guide
Subcategory: General
Comment:

Write a shell script file called letter1. After running the script, it will prompt the user, for an English alphabet, confirm the alphabet chosen, and then search the current directory for all the files having that alphabet as its first letter in its file-name. Show the list of matching files on your screen.



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Name: tvc
Date: October 23, 2009 at 09:10:30 Pacific
Reply:

Is this your homework ?

read firstletter
ls -1 ${firstletter}*

This will not check if the input given is 1 digit, or even a character, but something like

if [ ! "$firstletter" = "[a-z]" ]
then
exit 1
fi

Something like that ;)


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