Need Help with a "while" loop
 

Hi,

I need some help with looping. I need a portion of a script where I ask for two numbers to be entered, which also continue to ("while") loop until "q" is pressed to quit the loop.

The numbers are ultimately added, but what I am looking for is that I need the two numbers that are entered to be looped.

Here is my present script (below) which adds two numbers. Please be gentle as I am truly "a newbie."

Thank You,

joe.


echo "Enter one number"
read num1
echo “Enter another number”
read num2
sum=$((num1 + num2))
echo "The sum is = $sum"

you did'nt mentioned how the no's are looped, so considering this is not your school assignment, let me give you a usage of while loop so you try looping your variables the way you want them and let us know where you stuck.

syntax:
although i cant see any good use of looping two variables in a loop just for adding them instead sounds like a home assignment.

cheers :)

Like SAbhi wrote above, it's not really clear what you are trying to achieve here. I honestly don't understand your question, specifically:
How? Why?

Best of luck, and get back with more info, then we might be able to help out.

HMW