A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered to be scripting languages. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. A script that sets up the environment, runs the program, and does any necessary cleanup, logging, etc. is called a wrapper.
In this post, we will write a shell script to copy file1 to file2 that are taken from the input and display the errors, if any.
INPUT:
The first line contains two space-separated file-names: a and b
OUTPUT:
Print “done” if the file is copied successfully, else print “error”
The following is the shell script to add two numbers:
echo enter two files read f1 f2 if [ -s $f1 ] then if [ -r $f1 -a -w $f2 ] then cp $f1 $f2 echo done else echo no read or write permission fi else echo empty file or file does not exist fi
OUTPUT:
$ enter two files $ a b $ done
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