Writing script for Linux

robbmcmahan · 09-10-2003, 01:10 PM

Hi,

I am a linx newbie and needing to write a simple external command for Linux. What language do I use? perl? If so, i'm not that great with perl ...i'm mostly a PHP, JavaScript, sorta guy. So, i'm hoping someone can help me. All I need to do is to write a script that will look for a string input and then run a command with the string in it. Like this:

The string variable input:
"hello, how are you?"

The scripts output:
echo "string variable"

I know this will be a simple script I just need to know what language I use for shell scripting in linux and hoping someone can show me somthing using the example above so I can see the syntax from this to get me started.

Much thanks

Thanks

mrnikeswsh · 09-10-2003, 01:24 PM

I would be interested in this as well.. I'm a computer nerd at heart and just installed mandrake 9.1

I wanna play with some of the programming within Mandrake.

bZ

unSpawn · 09-10-2003, 01:36 PM

Stupid Bash script example:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Please enter any input. <blank line><enter> to exit."
while read; do
case "${#REPLY}" in 
0) exit 0;; 
*) echo "${REPLY}";;
esac
done

robbmcmahan · 09-10-2003, 02:05 PM

Perfect....

I know it was a stupidly simple....i just needed to see the syntax.

Thanks