Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:12:32 +0000

teammatt3;210808 wrote: It took me forever to figure out the difference between this=that and this = that. I guess whitespace does matter in more instances that I thought.

Yeah, it's really arcane. I avoid shell scripting with bash and co. whenever possible, unless it's a quick one-liner.

teammatt3;210808 wrote: Did you learn *nix in a class setting like this, or on your own?

Not in a class setting, but not entirely on my own. Online documentation is indispensable.

teammatt3 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:49:17 +0000

Ah, the pipe. Good idea.

Quote: Btw, is this homework?

Nope . We talked about if thens in class, but I didn't quite understand the syntax. So I wanted to create a simple script to help me better understand. It took me forever to figure out the difference between this=that and this = that. I guess whitespace does matter in more instances that I thought.

Thanks for the help again Abhishek. Did you learn *nix in a class setting like this, or on your own?

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:48:20 +0000

Create another function that reads the season and converts it to lower case. Instead of calling [incode]read season[/incode] everywhere, call your new function instead.

Here's one way to convert a variable's contents to lowercase: [incode]foo=`echo $foo | tr A-Z a-z`[/incode].

Btw, is this homework?