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Tough UNIX shell programming assignment. Suggestions? Anyone want to show off there superior UNIX expertise?

"Prepare a shell program that accepts no less than one argument or more than nine arguments. Each of the arguments must be checked to determine if it is a file. If it is not a file, display an error message for each argument that is not a file, redirecting the message to a temporary file and excluding it from the list of arguments used to produce the final output. Each acceptable file then outputs (1) "This file named, (file name here) contains: ", (2) cat|more|pg the file, and (3) display a blank line, a line with 15 underscores, and another blank line. After all the good files are generated, take the information that you redirected to the temporary file and output it to the screen using (1) a line that says "These are entries that are not files: ", and (2) cat the temporary file."

Thanks!

Please show us what you have so far. I am sure that we can assist you from there.

Jaysunn

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Have a look at what I have been working on
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Okay,

I figured out how to check to see if an argument is a file:

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#!/bin/sh
# Check to see if an argument is a file or not
if [ -f $* ]
then
echo "This is a file"
else
echo "This is not a file!"
fi
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And I figured out how to write the program to accept no less than one argument or more than nine arguments:

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if [ $# -lt 1 ] && [ -gt 9 ]
then
echo "Error in $0 - Invalid Argument Count"
echo "Syntax: $0 input_file output_file"
exit
fi
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The problem now is how to do the rest and then somehow put it into nested loops.

Thanks!