Input- Output String in UNIX

[olli2003]

Hello friends

I'm a new guy in writing shell sripts,
so perhaps someone can help me in this.
I'm going to write a script in follwing way:

su - root
cd /usr/local/bin
tp import $ root <--- so by this row I'll get an ask for an input on the display. I'll type in a string there wich should fetch from the input into the shell script and the script should goes on...

> 12345

...so the shell script should import the string and goes on with:

su - root
cd /usr/local/bin
tp import 12345 root
Echo &quot;End of the Programm!&quot;

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards
Oliver