I'm trying to make a script that will take an input from a user (a name and username) then direct that input to a text file named with that username. The code I have below will create the file, however doesn't direct any of the data into the file. Can anybody help me with this problem? Thanks
echo "What is your name?"
read name
echo "What is your chosen username?"
read username
cd user_records
$name >> "$username".txt
$username >> "$username".txt
Few comments:
-p parameter to read.-r unless you know why don't want it.cd - what if it is unsuccessful?#!/bin/bash
err(){ echo "$@" >&2; return 1; }
udir="./user_records"
read -r -p 'What is your name?> ' name
read -r -p 'What is your chosen username?> ' username
cd "$udir" || err "Can't cd to $udir" || exit 1
printf "%s\n%s\n" "$name" "$username" >> "$username.txt"
or maybe you don't need cd, in such case you can write
err(){ echo "$@" >&2; return 1; }
udir="./user_records"
read -r -p 'What is your name?> ' name
read -r -p 'What is your chosen username?> ' username
[[ -d "$udir" ]] || err "The $udir doesn't exists" || exit 1
printf "%s\n%s\n" "$name" "$username" >> "$udir/$username.txt"
cd dir || { echo "error" >&2; exit 40; } Stringing two || isn't needed. Also, you can do read -rp "this is my prompt: " and save some spaces :-)Lohmar gave the answer, but you need to echo the variable. Your code is trying to execute $name and $username, but you need to use it as data, not a command.
echo -n "What is your name? "
read name
echo -n "What is your chosen username? "
read username
cd user_records
echo "$name" >> "$username".txt
echo "$username" >> "$username".txt
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