Program 10 B.Sc Computer Science with Data analytics Linux and Shell Programming - Lab Bharathiar University - Write a shell script to find the factorial of given integer.

 

B.Sc Computer Science  with Data analytics

Linux and Shell Programming - Lab  

Bharathiar University 

Program 10-  Write a shell script to find the factorial of given integer. 

Source Code

# Function to calculate factorial

factorial() {

    num=$1

    fact=1

    while [ $num -gt 1 ]; do

        fact=$((fact * num))

        num=$((num - 1))

    done

    echo $fact

}

# Main program starts here

# Prompt the user to enter the number

    echo "Enter a number to find factorial: "

    read n

# Calculate the factorial of the given integer

result=$(factorial $n)

echo "The factorial of $n is: $result"

Sample OUTPUT: