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A very primitive coffee machine

This script uses a while loop to make it run until you interupt it with Ctrl-C. It combines multiple case statements to determine your beverage of choice.

Furthermore, the read builtin shell command is used to assign values to variables.

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
echo "Make your choice:"
echo "Koffee    sugar   milk    milk+sugar"
echo "  A        A 1     A 2     A 3"
echo "Expresso  sugar   milk    milk+sugar"
echo "  B        B 1     B 2     B 3"
echo "Hot choco sugar   cream   sugar+cream"
echo "  C        C 1     C 2     C 3"
echo "Press + for extra sugar."
echo "Press # for extra milk."
echo "-----------------------"
read DRINK ADD EXTRA
echo

case $DRINK in
        A)
          echo "One koffee coming up!"
          ;;
        B)
          echo "Aaaaah good choice, capuccino!  Me also like capuccino!"
          ;;
        C)
          echo "U still live with the Mama, huh?"
          ;;
        *)
          echo "you wanne break machine?  I tell you again: we have koffee, capuccino and hot choco, that is it!"
          ;;
esac

case $ADD in
        1)
          echo "And some sugar with that."
          ;;
        2)
          echo "Milk is for wussies."
          ;;
        3)
          echo "Insert extra coins for milk _and_ sugar."
          ;;
esac

case $EXTRA in
        +)
          echo "You know sugar is number one enemy of your arteries?"
          ;;
        '#')
          echo "O well, if you insist..."
          ;;
        *)
          echo
          ;;
esac
done


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