different kinds of shells

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Can anyone tell me about the classification and significance of variuos unix shells and why is only sh used for most shell scripting?

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this and this would be useful for you

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Write a single bash shell script which does the following:

  1. It accepts a single argument which can be either the string toupper or
    the string tolower. If the argument given by the user is toupper, the script
    will convert all of the names of the regular files (not directories) in the
    current directory to uppercase. Thus, file file.txt will become FILE.TXT, file
    Report.doc will become REPORT.DOC, etc.
    If the argument provided to the script is the string tolower, the files in the
    current directory will be renamed to the equivalent lower case ones. For
    example, Report.doc will become report.doc, etc. If the script is given no
    argument, then it will not try to rename any of the files in the current
    directory.
    (marks 30%).
  2. The files in the current directory (whether their name has changed or not
    in part 1), are moved to appropriate subdirectories, where the name of the
    appropriate subdirectory is the extension of the file being moved. For
    example, files report1.doc, report2.doc will be moved to a subdirectory
    doc, with the names REPORT1.DOC, REPORT2.DOC (assuming the
    script was called with the string toupper as argument.)
    If the directory does not exist, it will be created by the script. If a file does
    not have an extension it will not be moved to a subdirectory.
    (marks 35%).
  3. There is a possibility that when a file is moved to the appropriate
    subdirectory, the subdirectory already contains a file with an identical
    name. Modify the script so that if such a file already exists, the moved file
    will be renamed by appending the number 1 (or the next unique integer) to
    it. For example, if REPORT.DOC is moved to subdirectory doc, but there is
    already a file REPORT.DOC inside doc, then the moved file will be
    renamed as REPORT.DOC1. If a file REPORT.DOC1 already exists inside
    doc, then the moved file will be renamed as REPORT.DOC2, and so on.
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marriya,

Do not hijack a thread. Also no homework/classwork questions. That is against the rules. Closing this thread.

gurujoe, if you have any further questions related to your original post, please start a new thread.