Shell script

Docboyeee · #1 (**permalink**) 05-04-2006

I need some help with creating shell scripts that when run, will prompt the user to input a beginning and ending date and then be able to read that input and set a date variable within my scripts.

I have looked at the 2 books I have.. Sed and Awk, and Unix Shell Programming, but I really don't find what I am seeking.

Does anyone have another source I can research or any quick and easy scripts that I can incorporate into my scripts to prompt the user with a question and then wait for their response and actually read that response and pass it along as a variable?

Thanks!

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 05-04-2006

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# on some systems echo -n suppresses a newline at the end 
echo "Enter a date: \c"
read datevar 
echo "You entered $datevar"
exit 0

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