[SOLVED] Case Statement Command not found

Icewolf0927 · 08-13-2011, 05:59 PM

Hi
I have a case statement that works but I am getting command not found before it displays my echo statements and I am just wondering why it would do that.
Here is my code.

Code:

read -p  "What month is it?" month

 $month

case $month in

"Janurary") echo " $month is Winter ";;
"Feburary") echo "$month  is Winter ";;
"March") echo " $month is Spring ";;
"April") echo " $month is Spring ";;
"May") echo " $month is Spring ";;
"June") echo " $month is Summer ";;
"July") echo " $month is Summer ";;
"August") echo " $month is Summer ";;
"September") echo " $month is Fall ";;
"October") echo " $month is Fall ";;
"November") echo " $month is Fall ";;
"December") echo " $month is Winter";;
*) echo " $month is not valid" ;;

esac

Here is what the output looks like

Code:

[Icewolf@Crazy ~]$ ./lab5case
What month is it?April
./lab5case: line 5: April: command not found
 April is Spring

Thanks
Andy

roger_heslop · 08-13-2011, 06:29 PM

I copied your script, just to make sure I was reading it right. Here's what I found...

read -p "What month is it?" month

$month <<<<<<<< Remove me

case $month in

"Janurary") echo " $month is Winter ";;
"Feburary") echo "$month is Winter ";;
"March") echo " $month is Spring ";;
"April") echo " $month is Spring ";;
"May") echo " $month is Spring ";;
"June") echo " $month is Summer ";;
"July") echo " $month is Summer ";;
"August") echo " $month is Summer ";;
"September") echo " $month is Fall ";;
"October") echo " $month is Fall ";;
"November") echo " $month is Fall ";;
"December") echo " $month is Winter";;
*) echo " $month is not valid" ;;

esac

Icewolf0927 · 08-13-2011, 06:45 PM

I knew it was something stupid lol. Thanks for you help