Reference no: EM1379000

Login to your Linux environment and construct your start-up shell script. Whether you write the scripts as .profile or .cshrc, include the following options:

* Your search path to $PATH
* Your editor to vi
* Two variables of your preference, explain what they are.

Copy the following shell that completes the following:

#!/bin/bash

echo Select a country from the following list:

echo America, Italy, France, Germany

read country

case $country in

[Aa]merica ) echo Ford; echo Perhaps;;

[Ii]taly ) echo Ferarri;echo no;;

[Ff]rance ) echo Peugeot ;echo no way;;

[Gg]ermany ) echo Porsche ;echo yes;;

esac

Run the shell from above.

Answer the following questions:

· What is the purpose of the echo command?

· In the case statement, why are the first letters both caps and lower case?

· What does esac mean?

Submit the answers to these questions to your faculty member for grading.

Create your own shell that completes the following problem:

· Ask the user their name.

· Compare it to your name.

· Give a reply that their response is either your name too or it is a nice name too.

· Submit a listing of this shell to your faculty member for grading.

· Copy/Paste or attach a screen print.

Copy/paste the screen shots