P1: Program to print hello world.
echo "Hello World"
P2: Program to Display calendar.
echo "The Month is"
cal # cal command displays current month by default
echo "An alternate view of calender"
ncal # An alternale layout for calender
P3: Program to a simple script to read user input and perform operations with them.
echo -n "Enter number 1 : " # -n option supresses newline
read NUM1 # Read the user input from Standard Input and store in Variable NUM1
echo -n "Enter number 2 : "
read NUM2
SUM=$(($NUM1 + $NUM2)) # Arithmetic expansion using double parentheses
echo "The sum is $SUM"
SUM=`expr $NUM1 + $NUM2` # Arithmetic expansion using backticks.
#Usage of expr command to evaluate the expression
echo "The sum is $SUM"
P4: A script to show usage of if condition.
NUM1=5 # variabe assignment
NUM2=2
if [ $NUM1 -gt $NUM2 ] # -gt is to test intiger numbers
then
echo "NUM1 > NUM2"
fi
P5: A script to show usage of if else condition.
NUM1=2 # Variabe assignment
NUM2=5
if [ $NUM1 -lt $NUM2 ] # -lt is to test intiger numbers
then
echo "NUM1 < NUM2"
else
echo "NUM1 > NUM2"
fi
P6: A script to show usage of else if condition.
echo -n "Enter a number: "
read NUM
if [ $NUM -gt 0 ]
then
echo "$NUM is +ve"
elif [ $NUM -lt 0 ]
then
echo "$NUM is -ve"
else
echo "$NUM is 0"
fi
echo "done"
P7: A script to demonstrate case statement.
echo -n "Enter a character: "
read CHAR
case $CHAR in
a) echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel";; # ;; Terminates each option
e) echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel";;
i) echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel";;
o) echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel";;
u) echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel";;
*) echo "You entered $CHAR which is not a vowel";; # Defaults to everything else
esac
echo "What if you enter upper case letters!!?, Check the next example"
P8: A script to demonstrate case statement.
echo -n "Enter a character: "
read CHAR
case $CHAR in
a | A) # Test for both Lower or Upper case letter
# You may write commands in this fashion too!!, means multiline commands
echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel"
;; # Terminates each option
e | E)
echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel"
;;
i | I)
echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel"
;;
o | O)
echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel"
;;
u | U)
echo "You entered $CHAR which is a vowel"
;;
*) # Defaults to everything else
echo "You entered $CHAR which is not a vowel"
;;
esac
P9: A script to demonstrate case statement.
echo -n "Oceans are larger than lakes (True or False) : "
read USER_INPUT
case $USER_INPUT in
"TRUE"| "True" | "true")
echo "Yes you are right"
;; # Terminates each option
"FALSE" | "Fasle" | "false")
echo "No your are wrong"
;;
*) # Defaults to everything else
echo "Please enter either True or False"
;;
Esac
P10: A simple script to show usage of string compare operator = and !=.
STR1="Hello"
STR2="Hello"
if [ ${STR1} = ${STR2} ]
then
echo "Strings match"
else
echo "Strings don't match"
fi
P11: A simple script to show usage of string compare operator -z and -n.
STR1="Hello"
STR2="Hello"
if [ -z "${STR1}" ]
then
echo "String1 is empty"
else
echo "String1 is NOT empty"
fi
echo ":$STR:"
if [ -n "${STR2}" ]
then
echo "String2 is NOT empty"
else
echo "String2 is empty"
fi
P12: A simple script to show usage of logical operators.
echo -n "Enter a NUM: "
read NUM
# Check whether a number is between 10 and 20 (Using AND -a operator)
if [ $NUM -ge 10 -a $NUM -le 20 ]
then
echo "$NUM is between 10 and 20"
else
echo "$NUM is NOT between 10 and 20"
fi
echo -n "Enter another NUM: "
read NUM
# Check whether a number is between 10 and 20 (Using OR -o operator)
if [ $NUM -lt 10 -o $NUM -gt 20 ]
then
echo "$NUM is NOT between 10 and 20"
else
echo "$NUM is between 10 and 20"
fi
P13: A simple script to show usage while loop.
COUNT=0
while [ $COUNT -lt 5 ]
do
echo "Loop count is ${COUNT}"
COUNT=$((COUNT + 1))
done
echo "Done"
P14: Sum of N natural numbers using while loop.
echo -n "Enter a number: "
read NUM
let SUM=0;
let I=1
while [ $I -le $NUM ]
do
SUM=`expr $SUM + $I`
I=$((${I} + 1))
done
echo "The sum of the first $NUM numbers is: $SUM"
P15: A simple script to demonstrate for loop.
COUNT=0
for i in 0 1 2 3 4
do
echo "Loop count is ${COUNT}"
COUNT=$((COUNT + 1))
done
