How do you find whether a given number is even or odd in Unix shell programming?

Answer 1

echo "Program to check even or odd number"

echo "Enter a number"

read n

a=`expr $n % 2`

if [ $a -eq 0 ] ; then #Semicolon is most important for Executing ifelse statements

echo "It is an even number"

else

echo "It is an odd number"

fi