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### Explain Each Function ###

1. **grep**: A command-line utility that searches for a pattern in a file and prints matching lines.

Example: grep "^${username}:${password}$" "$USER_FILE"

- Searches for lines in users.txt where the format matches username:password.

2. **-q**: Makes grep silent; it only indicates whether the pattern was found without printing the

matching line.

Example: grep -q "^${username}:${password}$" "$USER_FILE".

3. **^ and $**:

- `^`: Matches the start of a line.

- `$`: Matches the end of a line.

Example: ^${username}:${password}$ ensures the entire line matches username:password

format.

4. **fi**: Used to close an if block in shell scripts.

Example:

if grep -q "pattern" file; then

echo "Pattern found"

fi

5. **[[ -s $PRODUCT_FILE ]]**: Checks if the file exists and is not empty.

- [[ ... ]]: A test command for conditions.

- -s: Checks if the file is non-empty.


6. **-t <**:

- -s ":" -t < "$PRODUCT_FILE": Specifies the delimiter (`:`) for the column command.

- `<`: Redirects the contents of products.txt to column.

7. **sed**: A stream editor used to manipulate text.

- `-i`: Edits the file in place.

- `/^${name}:/d`: Deletes lines starting with the product name (name:).

8. **/d**: In sed, /d means delete the line that matches the given pattern.

9. **| cut -d ":" -f 2**: The cut command extracts parts of a line based on a delimiter.

- `-d ":"`: Specifies `:` as the delimiter.

- `-f 2`: Extracts the second field.

10. **price=$**: Variable assignment.

Example: price=$(grep ... | cut ...) assigns the result of the command to the price variable.

11. **"Purchased $qty of $name for $cost"**: The `$` in this context is used for variable substitution.

12. **done < "$CART_FILE"**: The done keyword closes a while loop.

- `< "$CART_FILE"`: Feeds the contents of CART_FILE as input to the while loop.

13. **1) add_product ;;**: Matches the user's choice in a case statement.

- ;;: Indicates the end of the command for this case.

14. ***) echo "Invalid option! Please try again." ;;**: A wildcard (*) that matches any input not

handled by other cases.


15. **esac**: Used to close a case block.

16. **main_menu (at the last line)**: Calls the main_menu function, starting the program by

displaying the Main Menu to the user.

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