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grades

Instructions

Create a script grades.sh which will ask, as an argument, for the user to give a specific number of students in order to evaluate them. After the number is set, the script will ask you to introduce the "names" and "grades" of the persons you wish to evaluate.

The grades will have a range between 0 and 100 and will be numeric values only.

According to each student grade you will have to return the following:

• If the student grade is anything equal or greater than 90 you will return the string "<name>: You did an excellent job!":

$ ./grades.sh 1
Student Name #1: Sara
Student Grade #1: 90
Sara: You did an excellent job!
$

• If the student grade is anything equal or greater than 70 you will return the string "<name>: You did a good job!":

$ ./grades.sh 1
Student Name #1: Sara
Student Grade #1: 75
Sara: You did a good job!
$

• If the student grade is anything equal or greater than 50 you will return the string "<name>: You need a bit more effort!":

$ ./grades.sh 1
Student Name #1: Sara
Student Grade #1: 51
Sara: You need a bit more effort!
$

• If the student grade is anything lower than 50 you will return the string "<name>: You had a poor performance!":

$ ./grades.sh 1
Student Name #1: Sara
Student Grade #1: 34
Sara: You had a poor performance!
$

Error handling

All errors will print a specific message on stderr (ending with a newline) and returns a specific non-zero value:

• Wrong number of arguments: "Error: expect 1 argument only!", exit with 1.

• If the student grade is not a number or is greater than 100: Error: The grade <grade> is not a valid input. Only numerical grades between 0 and 100 are accepted., exit with 1.

$ ./grades.sh 2
Student Name #1: Sara
Student Grade #1: 101
Error: The grade '101' is not a valid input. Only numerical grades between 0 and 100 are accepted.
$ ./grades.sh 2
Student Name #1: Bob
Student Grade #1: ten
Error: The grade 'ten' is not a valid input. Only numerical grades between 0 and 100 are accepted.
$ ./grades.sh 1 2 3
Error: expect 1 argument only!
$

Usage

$ ./grades.sh 4
Student Name #1: Sara   # introduced by the user
Student Grade #1: 34    # introduced by the user
Student Name #2: Norman
Student Grade #2: 56
Student Name #3: James
Student Grade #3: 78
Student Name #4: Albert
Student Grade #4: 90
Sara: You had a poor performance!
Norman: You need a bit more effort!
James: You did a good job!
Albert: You did an excellent job!
$

Hints

In bash, you can use the read command to read input from the user and store it in a variable like so:

read var_name

You can also use the -p option to specify a prompt that will be displayed to the user before reading the input.

Use loops to go through each student. For example the for loop is very helpful.

for element in sequence
do
  # commands to be executed
done

You can use an array to store multiple pieces of data. To create an array, you can use the declare command with the -a option:

declare -a name_array

To add elements to the array, you can use the += operator:

name_array+=("Adding this to the array")

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