bash script using the case conditional statement.

shoebill

Take into account the main readme for this section. README first.

See the The GNU bash documentation for more test operators at: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Conditional-Constructs.html

Code.

$ cat learnbash.sh 
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Would you like to go to the ball with me? y/n : " Answer

case $Answer in
  Y|y) echo "Woohoo, I got a date!";;
  N|n) echo "Very well, a pleasure..";;
    *) echo "One is dining alone";;
esac

Run the script.

$ ./learnbash.sh 
Would you like to go to the ball with me? y/n : n
Very well, a pleasure..
$ ./learnbash.sh 
Would you like to go to the ball with me? y/n : y
Woohoo, I got a date!
$ ./learnbash.sh 
Would you like to go to the ball with me? y/n : 
One is dining alone