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[riffraff667]

how do you do a standard input prompt with a shell script?

 

[motoslide]

It probably depends on your shell, but this works in /bin/sh:

echo -n "Enter something: "
read ans
echo "You just typed $ans"

I don't think the "-n" is standard.

 

[riffraff667]

thanks

 

[elgrandeperro]

Yeah, do "man echo".

The command /usr/bin/echo DOES do -n, as well as the builtin echo of csh, but ksh does not, Bourne does...

gene

 

[elgrandeperro]

yeah, if echo -n doesn't work, use a \c to suppress the carriage return.

gene

 

[p5wizard]

or use

printf "Enter something: "
read answer

if you have printf

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[feherke]

Hi

And if you have [tt]bash[/tt] :

read -p "Enter something: " ans
echo "You just typed $ans"

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

And in ksh:
read ans?"Enter something: "
echo "You just typed $ans"

Hope This Helps, PH.
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