On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:28 +1300, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > To help my scripting, is there a simple way (one liner maybe) to ask for > the user to input a multi-character value and assign it to a variable? echo ( -n leaves the cursor on the same line )
displays text on the screen echo -n "Name: " > > Also, is there an equivalent of the DOS 'pause' command under bash? read name reads a line from standard input into the variable defined. Can be used to pause until data is entered, and also to save responses. echo "Hello, $name" Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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