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Hi all,

Write a shell script which reads in three numbers as arguments from the keyboard,
   compare them, and list them in an ascending order.

     [$] ./script2
     Enter three numbers: 20 10 85

     Your numbers in ascending order are: 20 30 85

If you do it first, then I will.  You still haven't said which shell.

regards,
Ben

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    If that's your professor's sample run, get a new professor. (10
    was entered, but 30 shows up in the output.)

    What do you need help with?

         Reading the numbers from the keyboard?

         Sorting the numbers?

         Comparing two numbers?

         Displaying the result?

    And:

         What shell are you using?

         Are you allowed to use external commands?

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hi,
It is both in C shell or Bourne shell.. ? tried to do many times
but I could not manage the problem. As I mentioned, I am new in shell
script programming and need to learn basic scripts so as to enhance my
coding ability..

please, kindly help..

Regards
Stephan

     Please read my answers to your other posts.

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#! /usr/bin/env zsh
read -A 'l?Enter three numbers: '
(($#l!=3||${#l:#*[^0-9]*}!=3))&&{
  print >&2 "I expected three numbers"
  exit 1

Quote:}

print Your numbers in ascending order are: ${(on)l}

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[...]

Quote:> #! /usr/bin/env zsh
> read -A 'l?Enter three numbers: '
> (($#l!=3||${#l:#*[^0-9]*}!=3))&&{
>   print >&2 "I expected three numbers"
>   exit 1
> }
> print Your numbers in ascending order are: ${(on)l}

Well, this only works with positive integer numbers.

#! /usr/bin/awk -f
function is_number(n) {
  return n ~ /^[-+]?[0-9]*(\.?[0-9]|[0-9]\.)[0-9]*([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?$/

Quote:}

BEGIN {
  printf("Enter three numbers: ")
  getline
  if (NF != 3 || ! is_number($1) || ! is_number($2) || ! is_number($3)) {
    print "I expected three numbers"
    exit 1
  }
  printf("Your numbers in ascending order are: ")
  if ($2 <= $1)
    $0 = $2 " " $1 " " $3
  if ($3 <= $1)
    $0 = $3 " " $1 " " $2
  else if ($3 <= $2)
    $0 = $1 " " $2 " " $3
  print

Quote:}

~$ ./script
Enter three numbers: 1e-34 -3E12 3.23
Your numbers in ascending order are: -3e12 1e-34 3.23

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[...]

Quote:>   else if ($3 <= $2)
>     $0 = $1 " " $2 " " $3
>   print

$0 = $1 " " $3 " " $2

of course

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Stphane                      ["Stephane.Chazelas" at "free.fr"]

Uhhh, folks - should we really be doing this persons homework for them?
I'm all for giving people a helping hand, but in this persons postings
there's been no attempt to do the homework themselves and they've been
getting pretty complete solutions. In fact, the solutions are so precise
that if they hand this in, it'll be a red flag to their professor that
they didn't do it themselves, especially when they can't explain in
detail what the scripts do.

        Ed.

I think Stephen intentionally made his scripts that way so it would be a
red flag to the professor if the person used them. On the other hand... :-)

Ben

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[...]

Quote:> I think Stephen intentionally made his scripts that way so it would be a
          Stephane
> red flag to the professor if the person used them. On the other hand... :-)

Yes, when it's too obvious that OP didn't make any effort, I
like to post unusual answers. If not to the OP, they can be
useful to someone as some neat tricks. And the OP needs to
understand it if he wants to use it.

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echo -n "Enter three numbers: "
echo "Your numbers in ascending order are: "
tr ' ' '\n' | sort -n | paste -s -d ' '

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Quote:Stefan Dask wrote...
>Write a shell script which reads in three numbers as arguments from
>the keyboard, compare them, and list them in an ascending order.

Assume input are really _arguments_ :

#!/bin/sh
echo $* | awk -F" " '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) { printf "\n" $i }}' | sort -n

$ ./xx 10 9 8 12 13

8
9
10
12
13