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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Interactive String Post 23276 by peter.herlihy on Thursday 20th of June 2002 01:57:39 AM
Old 06-20-2002
If you want the string entered in the command line when the script is run... it will become $1.....(you can also accept multiple inputs from the command line with $2,$3......)

So if your script (named my_script) was this:

FIRST_NAME=$1
MIDDLE_NAME=$2
FAMILY_NAME=$3
echo "Your full name is $1 $2 $3! I will call you $1"
echo "Hello $1"

Then you could run the script like this

my_script Peter Michael Herlihy

And it would return

Your full name is Peter Michael Herlihy! I will call you Peter
Hello Peter

Hope this helps....sometimes it's better to prompt during the script..other times it's better having it on the command line...depends on the scripts audience.
 

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