# Script to ask a user's full name and state of residence. # Script welcome's user to a company. Good luck! # This is a Bourne shell script. It predates the # Microsoft takeover of all computing, so it is not # written in VB.NET. TODO: Update to VB.NET. echo -n "Please enter your first name: " read FIRSTNAME # Read the user's input. echo -n "Please enter your last name: " read LASTNAME echo -n "Please enter the name of the state where you live: " read STATE # FULLNAME holds the user's full name. The reason for # the separate variables is to allow for future modifications # to query on the user's last name. For that, the last name # must be separate from the first name. FULLNAME="$FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME" # NOTE: This message may get long. MESSAGE="Well, $FULLNAME of $STATE, welcome to our huge" MESSAGE="$MESSAGE impersonal company." echo "$MESSAGE" # TODO: Each worker should be assigned a different # WU number. Use the last name to look up the worker's # WUN. echo "You will now be known as Worker Unit 10236." # end of script18