Write a shell script that accepts a string from the terminal and echo a suitable message if it doesn’t have at least 5 characters including the other symbols. Script must not use array or array length to find out string length.
#!/bin/bash # Shell script that accepts a string from the user and echo a suitable message if # it doesn't have at least 5 characters. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Copyright (c) 2007 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/> # This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC) # Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- echo -n "Enter a string : " read string LEN=$(echo ${#string}) if [ $LEN -lt 5 ]; then echo "$string doesn't have at least 5 characters" else echo "$string has 5 or more characters" fi
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very good example
Thank U for this script