[sf-lug] Need help with an Linux assignment script

[Clyde Jones]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Timothy Wang <timothyjwang at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am doing an assignment in City College CS160b and was having difficulty
>  understanding why it is not working. The assignment is posted on
>
>  http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~gboyd/
>
>  under cs 160b asmt02
>
>  twang03 at hills:~ $ vi chk
>
>  #!/bin/bash
>  #1st argument if filepath exists, output in readable sentences
>
>  if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
>     echo "chk: need -f or -u file or user" >&2
>     exit 1
>  fi
>
>  if [ ! "$1" = -f ] && [ ! "$1" = -u ]; then
>     echo "chk need -f or -u plus file or user" >&2
>     exit 1
>  fi
>  # =====    ============================
>  if [ "$1" = -f ]; then
>
>     if [ -h "$fname" ]; then
                   ^^^^^^^^
First, you never assigned fname anywhere that makes all the rest of
the code not work properly.


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