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Shell scripts - please help!!!!
Name: Daon Date: May 5, 2003 at 18:51:59 Pacific OS: Windows CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 256 MB
Comment:
Please help...I'm very new to Unix. I need a script (myscript)that takes the command line arguments and displays like:
%myscript John Smith
%Hello John %Your last name is: Smith
And another script (myage) that subtracts the age (that's supplied as a command line argument)from the year 2003:
Name: David Perry Date: May 5, 2003 at 20:31:42 Pacific
Reply:
#!/bin/sh if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then echo "Error. Usage $0 firstname lastname" exit 4 else echo "Hello $1" echo "Your last name is $2" fi ----------------------- #!/usr/local/bin/ksh if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then echo "Error. Usage $0 age " exit 4 else YEAR=`date +%Y` ((birthyear = $YEAR - $1)) echo "Were you born in $birthyear?" fi
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Name: LANkrypt0 Date: May 6, 2003 at 05:30:12 Pacific
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