I am creating one sh file in which user enters the roll number, name, subject name and marks. And i am storing it in one text file. Now i don’t want the user to enter the same roll number again. If he enters the same roll number it should throw an message. Here is what i have done:
read -p "Enter the roll: " roll read -p "Enter the name: " name read -p "Enter the Subject: " sub read -p "Enter the mark: " mark echo "$roll $name $sub $mark" >> asd.txt
How to prevent Entering the duplicate roll number.
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Answer
touch asd.txt rollExists=1 while [ $rollExists != 0 ] do read -p "Enter the roll: " roll rollExists=`grep -e "^${roll} " asd.txt | wc -l` if [[ "$rollExists" != "0" ]] then echo "Roll already exists" fi done read -p "Enter the name: " name read -p "Enter the Subject: " sub read -p "Enter the mark: " mark echo "$roll $name $sub $mark" >> asd.txt