vbe,

That is to avoid the automatic line feed you get at the end of an echo. In other words he wants to read the user input on the same line as the prompt.

neruppu,

Did you try vbe's sh -x suggestion? What exactly happens, does it loop endlessly like this?

Nope but i try this solution,
exec 3<&0
while
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read response <&3
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done <$input


and i get the endlessly like u mention above...

>That is to avoid the automatic line feed you get at the end of an echo. In other words he wants to read the user input on the same line as the prompt.

But that can also be done with echo... (" \c" )

All the best

Your code seems to work fine for me as well, both on Linux and HP-UX.

How are you actually running this script? In what shell and on what OS?

Im running in Putty, my local machine is window but the server is unix..

Using the shell : #!/bin/sh

Ah! You never mentioned this <$input before! Are you trying to make things more challenging for us or something?? What is contained in $input anyway?

Try read -u3 response instead of read response <&3 if your OS supports it. You still haven't said which OS by the way...

I just find out that this problem is happen its enter the main loop command ....

while [ $temp_loop_condition -eq 0 ]
do
next_loop=0

printf "Testing1 " <- its cant pause and wait for user input
read re
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done






There is a possible solution for this problem?