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#!/bin/bash

input=""

echo "Does a wall needs to be sent?"
read input

if [ $input="yes" ]; then
   echo "Sending message to all users"
   echo ""
else if [ $input="no"]; then
    exit
    fi
fi
echo "Is this a reboot or shutdown?"
      read input
if [ $input="reboot" ]; then
   reboot
elif [ $input="shutdown" ]; then
else
echo ""
echo "Goodbye"
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closed as off-topic by jasonwryan, slm♦ Jul 12 at 3:57

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  • "Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers." – jasonwryan, slm
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Among other things, you need spaces around the assignments, eg., [ $input = "yes" ]... –  jasonwryan Jul 12 at 3:31
    
elif dude, elif. else is for the final catch-all. –  hbdgaf Jul 12 at 3:31

1 Answer 1

up vote 1 down vote

That script has a bunch of issues. Here's a cleaned up version:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

input=""

echo "Does a wall needs to be sent?"
read input

if [ "$input" = "yes" ]; then
    echo "Sending message to all users\n"
elif [ "$input" = "no" ]; then
    exit
fi

echo "Is this a reboot or shutdown?"
read input

if [ "$input" = "reboot" ]; then
    reboot
elif [ "$input" = "shutdown" ]; then
    shutdown -h now
fi

echo "\nGoodbye"

Honestly though, this is still really poorly done. I would recommend using case statements parsing arguments instead of reading input.

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Big Help ! Thanks –  Yan Jul 12 at 4:01

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