Howdy People

I'm a newbie & its my first question here. I've started learning Unix Bourne Shell scripting recently and struggling already Can someone PLEASE help me with the following problem. Somehow my script is not working.

* Display an initial prompt of the form:
Welcome to machine name. What is your name?
where machine name is the network name for the machine that the script is running on.
* Read the name that the user enters
* Respond with the output:
Hello name, how are you?
* Read the response from the user
* If the response contains the word “good” respond with:
I’m glad to hear that.
* Otherwise, respond with:
I’m sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon.
* Finally output: Good-bye.


Much appreciated guys. Thanks heaps in advance

What have you done so far?

Thanks for your reply. This is wat i've done so far:

echo -n "Welcome to `hostname`. What is your name? "
read LINE
echo -n "Hello ${LINE}, how are you? "
read LINE
if test "${LINE}" = "good"
then
echo "I'm glad to hear that."
else
echo "I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon"
fi
echo "Good-bye."

And what happened when you tried running this script?

PS obviously you won't get your homework done for you on the forum.

Your script works if the answer to "how are you" is "good".
The problem is with the if statement.
There is no test for a variable containing a substring.

Two hints.

grep will find a string within a string
$? is 0 if the previous command was successful.

Thanks again for your reply Kitaman. Legend!
mike_bike_kite aka vaguely human, Homework??!! I'm homeless dude.