Shell script to check voting eligibility

In this chapter of shell script, we will learn about:

• shell script to check voting eligibility
• shell script example if condition

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Lets assume that a country allows its citizen to vote once they attain age of 18 years.

 

Suppose you wish to write a simple shell script example, that would:

• accept user age as input and
• then print message whether user is eligible to vote or not.

SHELL SCRIPT TO CHECK VOTING ELIGIBILITY

Given below is a shell script to find out the candidate eligible to vote based on age entered.

 

Here we have used if statement to validate the age. Notice that if statement ends with fi. That means everything in between if and fi is part of if statement body.

file: voting.sh

echo "Welcome to Voting booth"

echo "enter your age in integer"
read age

if [ $age -gt 17 ]
then
echo "Eligible to vote"
else
echo "Not Eligible to vote"
fi

OUTPUT

Given below is the screenshot of the same shell script example if condition:

OUTPUT

 

This is a simple shell script example programs that uses the shell script example if condition.