I need to make a bash script to create a file for school.

[Kraust]

Well. That would be easy if it were just the touch command.

I need to do the following things:

1. Ask the User if he would like to create a new file.
2. If yes, prompt him to enter a file name of at least 5 characters.
3. Confirm no file exists of that name.
4. If it exists, loop back to step 2.
5. If it doesn't exist. Create said file.
6. chmod +rw the file.
7. loop back to the beginning.

That's a pretty big if statement. but I'm not sure how to set some of it up. Especially the inputs.

[benj1]

this is a good guide to bash http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/, it will have have everything you need

[Kraust]

This is what I have so far:


#!/bin/bash

echo "Would you like to create a new file? [Y/n]"
read keypress
case "$keypress" in
y|Y) echo "Please type a file name of at least 5 characters" ;
read keypress ;
case "$keypress" in
) ;; # Check if $keypress already exists, probably using another case
) echo "Please use more than 5 Characters" ;;
esac ;;
n|N) exit ;;
*) echo "Please try again" ;; # I want to loop here
esac

I don't know what to use in the second case statement for 1-4 characters and greater than 5 characters.

[ghostdog74]

you can use read -p to prompt user


read -p "Would you like to create a new file? [Y/n]" keypress


to check more than 5 chars


case "$keypress" in
??????* ) echo "Ok, more than 5";;
* ) echo "not ok"
esac


if you want to loop, use a while true infinity loop



while true
do
# all my case checking
# break when everything ok using "break" keyword
done

[Jacks0n]

This loops... But it's too long. It should use a case statement somewhere. Yep, I was bored alright.



#!/bin/bash

function createFile {
read -p 'Would you like to create a new file? Y/N: ' createFile

# User cancelled
if [[ $createFile != 'Y' ]] ; then
return 0
fi


# Loop until filename is < 5 chars, and filename doens't exist
while true ; do
read -p 'Please enter a filename of less than 5 characters: ' fileName

# Filename is less than 5 characters
if [[ ${#fileName} -ge 5 ]] ; then
echo 'Error: The filename must be less than 5 characters!'
continue
fi

# Filename already exists
if [[ -f "$fileName" ]] ; then
echo 'Error: The filename already exists!'
continue
fi

# Create file
touch "$fileName"
chmod +rx "$fileName"
break
done
}

while true ; do
createFile
done