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echo How far can you count? read first second third echo $first echo $second echo $third
for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do echo $x echo -n "Do you want to continue: (y/n) " read f if test $f = n then break fi done echo Done
echo "Give me a letter:" read l case $l in [aeiou]) echo "That's a vowel!";; [b-df-hj-np-tv-z]) echo "That's a consonant!";; [A-Z]) echo "I said lower case!";; [1-9]) echo "I said a letter, not a number!";; *) echo "What's that?" ;; esac echo "Thank you and goodbye."
n=1 until test $n = 10 do echo $n n=`expr $n + 1` done
flag=y while test $flag = y do echo Do it again? read flag done
echo -n "Give me a number: " read n echo if test $n then echo The number is $n if test $n -gt 100 then echo That's a big number! else if test $n -le 100 then echo That's a nice number! fi fi if test $n = 69 then echo That's a bit rude! fi fi echo echo Byee!
while echo 'Give me a word:'; read name do echo "Hello , " $name done
echo "Type something please:" read a if test -d $a then echo "Thank you" else echo "Thanks for nothing" fi if test $# = 3 then echo "There are three parameters" fi
Can you work out what this bourne shell command does?
sed -e "s/./&\\ /g" file_name | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rTry it!
n=1 until test $n = 10 do echo $n n=`expr $n + 1` done
flag=y until test $flag = n do echo Do it again? read flag done flag=y while test $flag = "y" do then echo Do it again? read flag done
The following script will look up regular expressions in the Computer-Usable Version of the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (CUVOALD). It was designed to be of use to crossword players, who know the number of letters in a word, and have some of the letters.
echo "This program looks up in the OALD words you don't know in the crossword."
echo
echo "Type your word with periods ('.') for the letters you do not know"
echo "and do not type spaces in words (e.g. busstop):"
echo "(type ^c to interrupt)"
echo
read re
echo
cut -f1 /home/gps_20/ecl6rsh/cif/ctape/oald.mitton/cuv2 \
| tr -d " " | grep "^$re$"
This script is a more complex version of the above, that makes full use of all the information in CUVOALD. See Chapter 11 for more information on the dictionary.
comment="For looking up words in the oald, giving full listing of the entry" echo "What are you looking for:" echo echo "a - a word" echo "b - a pattern that is part of a word" echo "c - a transcription" echo "d - a partial transcription" echo "e - a word class tag" echo "f - a pattern to match any of the above categories" echo read select echo echo "Type in the word or pattern:" read re echo echo Looking for $re dict="/home/gps_20/ecl6rsh/cif/ctape/oald.mitton/cuv2" case $select in a) grep "^$re " $dict | more ;; b) grep ".*$re" $dict | more ;; c) grep " $re " $dict | more ;; d) grep " .*$re" $dict | more ;; e) grep "$re[,$]" $dict | more ;; f) grep $re $dict | more ;; esac echo echo -n "Press any key to continue, or CTRL-C to stop: " read n lookup
The following script runs a cloze test. This is a vocabulary test for language learners. The student is presented with a text from which several words are missing, and he has to guess the words form the context. This probably represents the limits to which Bourne shell scripts can be used for tasks normally done with a programmng language. It would be interesting to compare this script with a program in C or Icon. Note that the different modules (the text, the missing words and the script) are separate files. This means that more texts can easily be added by the teacher.
clear
n=1
until test $n = 10
do
echo
n=`expr $n + 1`
done
echo " ********************"
echo " **** CLOZE TEST ****"
echo " ********************"
echo
echo
echo ' Type CONTROL-C to exit at any time'
sleep 3
echo
until test ${name.tmp}
do
echo -n 'Please type in your name: '
read name.tmp
done
echo
until test $text
do
echo 'Please choose a text. Type one of the following:'
ls *.txt | sed "s/\.txt//"
echo
echo -n ': '
read text
done
cp ${text}.txt $HOME/$name.tmp
clear
cat $HOME/$name.tmp
echo
echo "You must guess the missing words."
echo "Read the entire text, then press return."
echo "-----------------Press return-----------------"
read rubbish
n=1
until test $n = 9
do
ans=`head -$n ${text}.sol | tail -1`
flag=
until test $flag
do
clear
cat $HOME/$name.tmp
echo
echo -n "Guess word number ${n} (just type RETURN to give up): " read guess
if test $guess
then sleep 1
else echo 'The answer is ' $ans ; break fi
if test $guess = $ans
then echo Right! ; sleep 1 ; flag=y else echo 'Wrong!' ; sleep 2 ; continue fi
done
sed "s/\[$n\]/$ans/" $HOME/$name.tmp > tmp.$$ mv tmp.$$ $HOME/$name.tmp
n=`expr $n + 1`
done
The UK is one of the world's great trading powers and financial centers, and its economy [1] among the four largest in Europe. The Thatcher government halted the expansion of welfare measures and promoted extensive reprivatization of the government economic sector. Agriculture is intensive, highly mechanized, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food [2] with only 1% of the labor force. Industry is a mixture of public and [3] enterprises, employing about 27% of the work force and generating 22% of GDP. The UK is an energy-rich nation with large coal, natural gas, and oil reserves; primary energy production accounts for 12% of GDP, one of the highest shares of any industrial nation. In mid-1990 the economy fell into [4] after eight years of strong economic expansion, which had raised national output by one quarter. Britain's inflation rate, which has been consistently well [5] those of her major trading partners, is expected to decline in 1991. Between 1986 and 1990 unemployment fell from 11% to about 6%, but it is now [6] rapidly because of the economic slowdown. As a major trading nation, the UK will continue to be greatly affected by world boom or [7], swings in the international oil market, productivity trends in domestic industry, and the terms on which the economic integration of [8] proceeds.
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