{"id":2358,"date":"2017-12-08T07:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T07:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2020-01-09T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:00:18","slug":"shell-script-program-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/shell-script-program-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell script program 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>scmuser created the topic: Shell script program 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use a script to take two numbers as arguments and output their sum using (i) bc (ii) expr. include error &#8211; checking to test whether two arguments were entered?<\/p>\n<p><strong>tpatil replied the topic: Re: Shell script program 2<\/strong><br \/>\nIf I understand correctly your question, You want to pass 2 parameters to shell script and print the sum of those. Also, you want to throw error if the number of parametrs are less than 2.<\/p>\n<p><code>#!\/bin\/bash<\/p>\n<p>if [ $# -lt 2 ]<br \/>\nthen<br \/>\n  echo \"Usage: $0 arg1 arg2\"<br \/>\n  exit<br \/>\nfi<\/p>\n<p>echo \"\\$1=$1\"<br \/>\necho \"\\$2=$2\"<\/p>\n<p>let add=$1+$2<br \/>\nlet sub=$1-$2<\/p>\n<p>echo -e \"Addition=$add\\nSubtraction=$sub\\n\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>renjith replied the topic: Re: Shell script program 2<\/strong><br \/>\n#!\/bin\/ksh<\/p>\n<p>while echo &#8221; Enter two numbers :\\n &#8221; ; do<br \/>\necho &#8220;Enter num 1: &#8220;; read A;<br \/>\necho &#8220;Enter num 2: &#8220;; read B;<br \/>\nif [ -z $A -o -z $B ] ;then<br \/>\necho &#8221; Invalid input , pls enter again&#8221;<br \/>\nelse<br \/>\nbreak<br \/>\nfi<br \/>\ndone<\/p>\n<p>export A B<\/p>\n<p>echo &#8221; ************* MENU *********** \\n&#8221;<br \/>\necho &#8221; 1. cal using bc &#8220;;<br \/>\necho &#8221; 2. cal using expr&#8221;;<br \/>\necho &#8221; enter you choice :&#8221;;<br \/>\nread c;<\/p>\n<p>case $c in<br \/>\n1) sum=`echo &#8221; $A + $B &#8220;|bc` ;;<br \/>\n2) sum=`expr $A + $B` ;;<br \/>\n*) echo &#8220;invalid option , run script again&#8221;<br \/>\nesac<\/p>\n<p>if [ $? -eq 0 ]<br \/>\nthen echo &#8221; Sum is $sum&#8221;<br \/>\nelse<br \/>\necho &#8221; Script failed &#8221;<br \/>\nfi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scmuser created the topic: Shell script program 2 Use a script to take two numbers as arguments and output their sum using (i) bc (ii) expr. include error &#8211; checking&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shell-script","tag-shell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}