Need Help With A Project

[LostScripter]

I am having so much troubled with this project. It's the last one and I just want to get this class over with. The teacher doesn't teach for sh*t and I haven't learned very much. My book is also not very helpful. I know it's asking a lot, but if someone is bored or wants to take a stab at it let me know. I haven't the faintest idea where to start. I have some of the menu options written, and I know I should use case statements more than likely, but besides that I'm lost and I'm going to fail.

Write a BASH script that displays the following menu and prompts a user for one character input to invoke the menu option as follows:

a. List all the files in the present working directory.

b. Display today’s date and time

c. invoke the domain2ip shell script.

d. Display whether a file is a simple file or a directory

e. Create a backup for a file

f. Compress a file

g. Start a telnet session

h. Start an ftp session

x. Exit.

* The domain2ip shell script should ask the user for a list of domain names.
* The shell script should allow a user to try any of the options any number of times, and the script should only quit after a user gives x as an input option.
* Input should take into account capital and lower case letters.
* Options d, e and f should insert a prompt for the user to enter a file name before invoking the utility.

Here is the domain2ip script that I wrote:

clear
NUMARG=$#
COUNT=1
while [ $COUNT -le $NUMARG ]; do
nslookup "${!COUNT}"
(( COUNT=COUNT+1 ))
done

[gerard4143]

I would recommend checking out this site:

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

or this one

Bash Shell Programming in Linux

As for doing your homework...you know the rules...Gerard4143