How to write a Shell Script to say Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening as you log on in the system?.

what have you tried?
show us an example, what it does, where it fails.

this might help if you know how to transpose
https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ts-with-ranges

Read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature. We're happy to help you with your scripts, but we will NOT write them for you. Post what you have written/done/tried on your own, and tell us where you're stuck.

Otherwise, there are THOUSANDS of easily-found bash scripting tutorials you can find with a brief Google search to get you started.

Hi,
Requirement is like this: while user logs into linux($ prompt), system will welcome him/her by saying good morning/good afternoon/good evening just before S prompt is shown. I have written a shell script welcome. It contains shell coding like now=`date +%H1 if test $now -le 12 then
echo "Good Morning, $LOGNAME" elif test now -le 16 then echo "Good Afternoon, $LOGNAME" else echo "Good Evening, $LOGNAME" fi. Now I want to place this sh welcome code into /home/.profile file for the required result. How to proceed? Pl suggest.

Soumitra Rakshit

please use [code]here comes your script[/code] tags to keep formatting of your script. Otherwise it will be really hard to read/understand.
I do not really understand: what is your actual problem?

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Again, you need to read the "Question Guidelines" link, and the LQ Rules...pay attention to the part about text-speak, and not using it, and about posting your code in CODE tags to make things easy to read.

And this post itself makes no sense...you just SAID "I want to place this sh welcome code into /home/.profile"....so DO IT. Open the file...insert the code...save and exit. Where is the difficulty?? And again, please show effort of your own; this is obviously a homework question, and doing even a small amount of research about the Linux login process would tell you what file(s) you need to look at, and give you examples. Your .profile and/or .bashrc are in the home directory for your user ID, like /home/user1/. If you want to apply this for the ENTIRE system, then you need to modify the system profile, in /etc.

telling us your requirements is not my definition of showing some effort.

but anyhow, i copy-pasted the script and formatted it a little:
needless to say, it doesn't work like that.

yeah when I run that date command I get 3 chars