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Old 07-03-2008
neruppu neruppu is offline
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Originally Posted by vbe View Post
How can you be sure you entered in the loop?

Im pretty sure if I put:

printf "Please enter a name : [${omc_ident}] "
read response # the problem occur here

in a script, it would display and prompt for answer

actually in my scritps, i did follow the flow by put echo messages
and it was entered the loop
and execute both printf and read command, but it didnt pause for user input..

do u have any idea,how to solve this problem ... Thanks