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this is all of the code that i am using. when it asks for the file, i simply enter 'text' without the quotations, which is the name of the file which already contains some text in it. Thanks a lot. echo echo "file?" read $file echo "Enter the new line to add:" read newline echo "$newline" >>...

i just realized that i needed to add quotation marks to make "$file". But now, it says cannot find file or directory, but it does exist...

Hi, i have the following code, but when i enter the word to add, the following error appears line 6: $file: ambiguous redirect. Does anyone know why? echo "enter file" read file echo "enter word to add" read word echo "$word" >> $file Thanks for your help.

thanks for your reply. Would this work in the same way to find the number of sentences in the text by separating any text after a full stop onto a new line and then using grep to count the number of lines with a full stop? thanks again.

i'm trying to get the user to enter a word, then the script should search for how many of that word exists in the file. For example, I want it to say, "There are 7 'and' words in the file", or "There are 5 'the' words in the file" etc... I have the following which I used to find a specific...