How can I get input from terminal?

[linkmaster03]

You sure about that? Aliases don't take arguments. It will work, but only because -ncycles is the last option and $1 is unbound. What aliases do is a strict substitution of whatever the alias is. There isn't any shell expansion.

Ah yes, you are correct. I always forget that.

[falconindy]

You sure about that? Aliases don't take arguments. It will work, but only because -ncycles is the last option and $1 is unbound. What aliases do is a strict substitution of whatever the alias is. There isn't any shell expansion.

Sorry but I don't buy that. I use the following alias (bash) and it works as intended:

man2pdf() {
    if [ -z $1 ]; then
        echo "USAGE: man2pdf [manpage]"
    else
        if [ `find /usr/share/man -name $1\* | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
            out=/tmp/$1.pdf
            if [ ! -e $out ]; then
                man -t $1 | ps2pdf - > $out
            fi
            if [ -e $out ]; then
                /usr/bin/evince $out
            fi
        else
            echo "ERROR: manpage \"$1\" not found."
        fi
    fi
}

Omitting an argument prints the usage message. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your explanation.

[linkmaster03]

falconindy: What you pasted is a function. jpkotta is referring to aliases, defined by "alias <name>='<command>'".

[falconindy]

falconindy: What you pasted is a function. jpkotta is referring to aliases, defined by "alias <name>='<command>'".

Silly me. I should have known that.

[aytacd]

I'm totally lost. Tried the last one but still getting bracket error's can someone explain the algorithm to me in a easy way maybe i can modify the code?
By the way one of my friends send me something like this:

#!/bin/bash

echo "First Number"
echo $1
echo "Second Number"
echo $2
echo "number of the totals"
let result=$1+$2
echo $result
echo
# -------------------------- #
echo -n "Enter another value: "
read var
echo "\"var\" = "$var""
# IS IT OK?

ubuntu doesnot take sonuc as a variable..
Is it possible to modify this code to enter the number to the end of a string?