while [[ "$vrfy" != "true" && "$vrfy2" != "true" ]];
do
echo "ID format - 000-000-000"
read -p "Enter Name: " usrnme
read -p "Enter ID: " id
if echo $usrnme | grep "^[A-Za-z]" > /dev/null
then
vrfy="true"
else
until [ "$vrfy" = "true" ];
do
echo "Re-enter name"
read -p "Enter Name: " usrnme
if echo $usrnme | grep "^[A-Za-z]" > /dev/null
then
vrfy="true"
fi
done
fi
if echo "$id" | grep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]$" > /dev/null
then
vrfy2="true"
else
until [ "$vrfy2" = "true" ];
do
echo "format 000-000-000"
read -p "Enter ID: " id
if echo "$id" | grep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]$" > /dev/null
then
vrfy2="true"
fi
done
fi
done
here my portion of my code i having trouble to compress it
i feel that i can do the same task in smaller amount of lines
but i haven't figured out how