I'm not getting cube of the number












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while [ "$c" = y -o "$c" = Y -o -z $c ]
do
echo enter a number;
read n;
if [ $n -ge 0 -a $n -le 50 ];then
echo "cube= `expr $n * $n * $n`";
fi;
echo y to continue or any to exit;
read c;
done









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while [ "$c" = y -o "$c" = Y -o -z $c ]
do
echo enter a number;
read n;
if [ $n -ge 0 -a $n -le 50 ];then
echo "cube= `expr $n * $n * $n`";
fi;
echo y to continue or any to exit;
read c;
done









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  • To ask a better question, you should describe (or better, show) what actually happens, and describe how that differs from what you want to happen.

    – glenn jackman
    Jan 11 at 21:02














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while [ "$c" = y -o "$c" = Y -o -z $c ]
do
echo enter a number;
read n;
if [ $n -ge 0 -a $n -le 50 ];then
echo "cube= `expr $n * $n * $n`";
fi;
echo y to continue or any to exit;
read c;
done









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while [ "$c" = y -o "$c" = Y -o -z $c ]
do
echo enter a number;
read n;
if [ $n -ge 0 -a $n -le 50 ];then
echo "cube= `expr $n * $n * $n`";
fi;
echo y to continue or any to exit;
read c;
done






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  • To ask a better question, you should describe (or better, show) what actually happens, and describe how that differs from what you want to happen.

    – glenn jackman
    Jan 11 at 21:02



















  • To ask a better question, you should describe (or better, show) what actually happens, and describe how that differs from what you want to happen.

    – glenn jackman
    Jan 11 at 21:02

















To ask a better question, you should describe (or better, show) what actually happens, and describe how that differs from what you want to happen.

– glenn jackman
Jan 11 at 21:02





To ask a better question, you should describe (or better, show) what actually happens, and describe how that differs from what you want to happen.

– glenn jackman
Jan 11 at 21:02










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You've got a few problems with your shell script. First, you should quote $c in the while (all of them — you missed the last one). Otherwise, when $c is empty (say, at the start of your program), the -z test gets passed nothing instead of the empty string, giving an error (something along the lines of "argument expected").



Second, you need to escape the * in your expr command. Otherwise it's trying to do a glob (match filenames), just like cat * would do. Easiest is to escape it to *. The error from that will depend on exactly what the * happens to expand to (i.e., which files are in your current directory), but will probably be something confusing!



That should at least get your script to run.



PS: There are a bunch more ways this could be improved, you might want to check out ShellCheck for some (automated) suggestions.






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    In bash, you could write:



    PS3="Continue? "
    while true; do

    read -p "Enter a number: " n
    ((0 <= n && n <= 50)) && echo "cube = $((n * n * n))"

    select ans in yes no; do
    case $ans in
    yes) break ;;
    no) break 2 ;;
    esac
    done
    done





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      You've got a few problems with your shell script. First, you should quote $c in the while (all of them — you missed the last one). Otherwise, when $c is empty (say, at the start of your program), the -z test gets passed nothing instead of the empty string, giving an error (something along the lines of "argument expected").



      Second, you need to escape the * in your expr command. Otherwise it's trying to do a glob (match filenames), just like cat * would do. Easiest is to escape it to *. The error from that will depend on exactly what the * happens to expand to (i.e., which files are in your current directory), but will probably be something confusing!



      That should at least get your script to run.



      PS: There are a bunch more ways this could be improved, you might want to check out ShellCheck for some (automated) suggestions.






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        You've got a few problems with your shell script. First, you should quote $c in the while (all of them — you missed the last one). Otherwise, when $c is empty (say, at the start of your program), the -z test gets passed nothing instead of the empty string, giving an error (something along the lines of "argument expected").



        Second, you need to escape the * in your expr command. Otherwise it's trying to do a glob (match filenames), just like cat * would do. Easiest is to escape it to *. The error from that will depend on exactly what the * happens to expand to (i.e., which files are in your current directory), but will probably be something confusing!



        That should at least get your script to run.



        PS: There are a bunch more ways this could be improved, you might want to check out ShellCheck for some (automated) suggestions.






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          You've got a few problems with your shell script. First, you should quote $c in the while (all of them — you missed the last one). Otherwise, when $c is empty (say, at the start of your program), the -z test gets passed nothing instead of the empty string, giving an error (something along the lines of "argument expected").



          Second, you need to escape the * in your expr command. Otherwise it's trying to do a glob (match filenames), just like cat * would do. Easiest is to escape it to *. The error from that will depend on exactly what the * happens to expand to (i.e., which files are in your current directory), but will probably be something confusing!



          That should at least get your script to run.



          PS: There are a bunch more ways this could be improved, you might want to check out ShellCheck for some (automated) suggestions.






          share|improve this answer













          You've got a few problems with your shell script. First, you should quote $c in the while (all of them — you missed the last one). Otherwise, when $c is empty (say, at the start of your program), the -z test gets passed nothing instead of the empty string, giving an error (something along the lines of "argument expected").



          Second, you need to escape the * in your expr command. Otherwise it's trying to do a glob (match filenames), just like cat * would do. Easiest is to escape it to *. The error from that will depend on exactly what the * happens to expand to (i.e., which files are in your current directory), but will probably be something confusing!



          That should at least get your script to run.



          PS: There are a bunch more ways this could be improved, you might want to check out ShellCheck for some (automated) suggestions.







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              In bash, you could write:



              PS3="Continue? "
              while true; do

              read -p "Enter a number: " n
              ((0 <= n && n <= 50)) && echo "cube = $((n * n * n))"

              select ans in yes no; do
              case $ans in
              yes) break ;;
              no) break 2 ;;
              esac
              done
              done





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                In bash, you could write:



                PS3="Continue? "
                while true; do

                read -p "Enter a number: " n
                ((0 <= n && n <= 50)) && echo "cube = $((n * n * n))"

                select ans in yes no; do
                case $ans in
                yes) break ;;
                no) break 2 ;;
                esac
                done
                done





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                  In bash, you could write:



                  PS3="Continue? "
                  while true; do

                  read -p "Enter a number: " n
                  ((0 <= n && n <= 50)) && echo "cube = $((n * n * n))"

                  select ans in yes no; do
                  case $ans in
                  yes) break ;;
                  no) break 2 ;;
                  esac
                  done
                  done





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                  In bash, you could write:



                  PS3="Continue? "
                  while true; do

                  read -p "Enter a number: " n
                  ((0 <= n && n <= 50)) && echo "cube = $((n * n * n))"

                  select ans in yes no; do
                  case $ans in
                  yes) break ;;
                  no) break 2 ;;
                  esac
                  done
                  done






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