Simple Bash Script to Reverse Your Name and Output it
Just a quick script to reverse some input, using Bash and the FOSS "rev" program. It's amazing how easy it is to manipulate things with Bash. I love it! Bash script version: #!/bin/bash #Simple script to reverse an input name echo "Enter your name";read 'myname' echo "Your name spelled backwards is: $( echo $myname | rev )" exit 0 One-liner version: echo -n "what is your name?";read name;echo "$name" |rev Or how about this more ridiculous example (one that doesn't use the "rev" program): #!/bin/bash #Simple script to reverse an input name echo -n "Enter your name:" read myname numChars=$(echo -n "$myname" |wc -c) revname= while [ $numChars -gt 0 ] do revname=$revname$(echo -n "$myname"|cut -b$numChars) numChars=$(expr $numChars - 1) done echo "Your name spelled backwards is: $revname" exit 0 Ridic...