Bash Script: Need help with this !

[slither]

Script that

-asks for a name, phone number, and date of birth and appends these details to a comma separated value file called birthday.csv

-sorts birthday.csv by birthday (not by age ) to produce a new file newbirthday.csv. The format of each row is:
<name>,<phoneNumber>,<YYYY/MM/DD>.

Script " bdayalarm.sh " that :
-if today it's someone’s birthday, display “Birthday Alarm” followed by rows of the name of each person whose birthday is today and their phone number, otherwise show the next birthday in the year.



If anybody could help me with that i would appreciate it...
i just got stuck and i know it's an easy script but i'm a newbye in this

Cheers!

[scathefire]

sounds like homework. i'll give you a hint:

FILE=birthday.csv
echo -n "Name: "
read -e NAME
...

Then you'll need some way of putting those variables into a script, (i'd suggest using echo). That's all the help I can give ya, figure out more, if you get stumped come on back.

What exactly are you stuck on?

[nmset]

You should start with something at least. Even if we lay out what you need, it won't necessarily be helpful to you.

Admins of this forum will point out to you that homeworks are not allowed here, as per the forum rules.

[slither]

well i've done the

echo " enter your name phone etc. " part

i've named the variables ...
done the
read name
read phone etc

and when i want to put these variables into the the file .csv
it won't work using the script
cat and > or >> and ^d ... it just won't put them in the file birthday.csv
as for the ordering part i don't have an idea yet...

You should start with something at least. Even if we lay out what you need, it won't necessarily be helpful to you.

Admins of this forum will point out to you that homeworks are not allowed here, as per the forum rules.

who said anything about homework ?
i'm 21 years old and i'm doing this linux course...i'm just trying to get used to the whole thing so i started up on some basic exercises .

P.S. i'm using pico editor via sage

right,i'm off for a jog ,hope i get some good hints/help.
talk to you in a bit .

[scathefire]

don't use cat. use something like:

echo "$NAME,$PHONE,$DOB" >> $file

cat is more for like putting the files into STDOUT

A lot of people come here for "help" with scripting classes. And by help I mean they essentially want someone else to write it for them, so don't take it too personal

[slither]

don't use cat. use something like:

echo "$NAME,$PHONE,$DOB" >> $file

cat is more for like putting the files into STDOUT

tried that still comes with a freaking error for some reason :/

[scathefire]

what be the error?

[slither]

what be the error?

erm apparently i can't post pics ... since i don't have 15 posts...
guess it's an anti-spam solution ...
i'll get back with details after my run

later edit:
ok back .
it shows me :

./bdayadd.sh : line 15 : vicktor (this is the $name) :command not found

[slither]

bump ! .

[scathefire]

you probably wrote your script wrong, try making each input like this:

echo -n "What the screen will read"
read -e VARIABLENAME