Write a shell script to count number of lines, number of words and number of character in a given file with menu options.

# menu.sh

# Program :         Write a shell script to count number of lines, number of words and number of character in a given file with menu options.

# Author :           sujith

# Date :              17/03/2015

echo "Enter the filename"

read file

echo "menu"

echo "1->lines"

echo "2->words"

echo "3->characters"

echo "4->exit"

echo "Enter the choice"

read choice

case $choice in

        1) set `wc -l $file`

         l=`echo $1`

         echo "no of lines in $file is:$l"

         continue;;

        2) set `wc -w $file`

         w=`echo $l`

         echo "no of words in $file is: $w"

         continue;;

        3) set `wc -c $file`

         c=`echo $l`

         echo "no of characters in $file is : $c"

         continue;;

        4)

        echo "Invalid choice"

        break;

esac

Output:

[141740@localhost ~]$ sh menu.sh

Enter the filename

str.sh

menu

1->lines

2->words

3->characters

4->exit

Enter the choice

1

no of lines in str.sh is:29

[141740@localhost ~]$

[141740@localhost ~]$ sh menu.sh

Enter the filename

str.sh

menu

1->lines

2->words

3->characters

4->exit

Enter the choice

2

no of words in str.sh is:77

[141740@localhost ~]$

[141740@localhost ~]$ sh menu.sh

Enter the filename

str.sh

menu

1->lines

2->words

3->characters

4->exit

Enter the choice

3

no of characters in str.sh is : 357

[141740@localhost ~]$