program in bash which draw a number

i would like to write a program wchich draws a number on of 100 and than it wirte to user it's too much if its bigger than drawed number or it's to low if number (which wrote user) is lower.
I have stomething like this but I have got errors:

num=`$((RANDOM/327))`
echo „write a number from 0 -100”
read type
until  [ $num = $type ]
do
if [$num –lt $type]
then echo “too much!”
sleep 1
clear
echo “Try again!”
read type
esle if [$num –gt $type] then
echo “too low!”
sleep 1
echo “Try again!”
read type
fi
fi
done

well I get multiple errors. could anybodie help?

Hi,

What kind of errors are you getting?

I can suggest using "" on echo and elif for else if for starters.

Well like the post above, telling us what errors you get would be better than us guessing.

I also found it difficult to understand exactly what it is you are trying to do?
You mention about the user entering numbers in the range 0 - 100 in the script but then have used the number 327??? I am not sure I see the point here?

Some of the things I noticed:

1. Use `` or $() but not both, especially in the same point of execution ... I can say that $() is recommended for a bash script.

2. You use -lt and -gt in some tests but then use '=' when checking equality, however this is a string test and not a numerical one, you should in fact use -eq

3. Further to point 2 above, instead of using [] for numerical tests, I would suggest using (()) which are designed for this and then you can also use the standard mathematical symbols like <, >, etc

4. If you have more than 2 tests to check against, I would also suggest looking into the case statement


Hope some of that helps. If you could maybe explain a little further your aim, we may have other suggestions too

Try and execute this, if I understood well what you want to do then it should work just fine:

r=$(( $RANDOM % 100 ) + 1)
echo "write a number from 0 - 100"
read x
until [ $r -eq $x ]
do
if [ $r –lt $x ]
then 
echo "too much!";
sleep 1;
clear;
echo "Try again!"
read x
elif [ $r –gt $x ]
then
echo "too low!";
sleep 1;
echo "Try again!";
read x;
fi
fi
done

Hope I've helped

Ok quite good working prog is:

type=$((RANDOM/327))
until [ $num = $type ];
do
clear
echo “give me number from 1-100”
read num
if [$num –lt $type]
then echo -e “to low!”
elif [$num –gt $type] 
then
echo  –e “to much!”
fi
sleep 1
done

however I have an error because it always pick up 0 (zero) I don't know why. Maybey it's fedora or sth.

If using [ ], its recommended to use [[ ]] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/testcon...ml#DBLBRACKETS.
As above, use (( )) instead for numeric comparisons, OR use the correct operator -eq instead of '='
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/comparison-ops.html

when using [ ] or [[ ]] always leave a space on each side

if [[ a -eq 0 ]]
then

Please indent your code for easy reading for eg if blocks and loop blocks

if [$num –lt $type]
then 
    echo -e “to low!”
elif [$num –gt $type]

If you add 'set -xv' at the top, it'll show you what's happening.