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Hello all.

I'm a college student and am very new to BASH scripting. I'm trying to write a simple script for a homework assignment and I keep getting the following problem:

Your Tax Information is as follows
GPEx: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `('
GPEx: line 15: ` *(<= 10000))'



This is all the script for the file.


echo "Welcome to my week 7 custom project script."
echo "This script will calculate taxes."

echo "Please enter your name"
read Name
echo "Thank You"
echo " "
echo "Please enter your income for the given time period"
read Income
echo "Alright, Thank You" $Name
echo " "
echo "Your Tax Information is as follows"

case $Income in
*(<= 10000))
(("$IncomePostTax" = "$Income * .10"))
echo "Because you made $10,000 or less during that time period your only getting charged 10%"
;;
*((>=10001 && <= 20000)
(("$IncomePostTax" = "&Income * .15"))
echo "Because you made between $10,000 and $20,000 in the given time period your only getting charged 15%"
;;
*)
echo "Invald data, please re-enter the data"
;;
esac

Can somebody please tell me what I did wrong.
Thanks in advance.

You're using case where you'd better use if...elif...elif...fi
As far as I know, case can't evaluate .
for -le -ge, see help test.
Bash can't evaluate decimal arithmetic expression.
You need to protect the dollar sign as it doesn't call a variable.
So

Thank You! After taking that and entering it the script ran successfully. I was also able to look up what you said in my book and learn from it. I appreciate your time and thank you again.