Question

The name of your bash script must be script1 and below is a description of what it should do when executed.

The script displays a message Guess, what is zip program's location Then it displays a message Enter the full path e.g. /etc/zip or /proc/bus/zip Then it reads the users response If the user's response is correct, it displays a message Great guess, zip's location is XXX, where XXX is the correct location of zip , and the script terminates. If the user's response is not correct, it displays a message Wrong guess and another message You guessed YYY, in fact it's location is XXX where YYY is the user's response and XXX the correct location of zip , and the script terminates.

A few useful hints: What you need to know: which, echo, read, if statement, how to use backquoting The command which zip returns a string containing the location of the program named zip . Example: /usr/bin/zip To save the string returned by which zip , use x=`which zip`, now the variable x contains the string An if statement comparing the string stored in a variable x and a string stored in a variable y has a form if [ "$x" == "$y" ] then (whatever you want to do here when the two strings are equal) else (whatever you want to do here when the two strings are not equal) fi To read user's response to a variable x , use read x

Answer 1

echo "what is zip program's location"
echo "Enter the full path e.g. /etc/zip or /proc/bus/zip"
read x
y=`which $x`

if [ "$x" == "$y" ]
then
   echo "Great guess, zip's location is $y"
else
   echo "Wrong guess and another message You guessed $x"
fi

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