Hi guys ,
As you know normally ' read ' statement waits
for the user to press enter and then terminates
the input .............
Can anyone of u tell me how do i read a
single character from input without waiting
for the user to press enter ................
Thanks,
Nagesh. (1 Reply)
I am trying to read input for a C program (that expects input from the user) from a file using the shell command:
progname < filename
but it seems that the program considers the char '<'
as the first input, hence causing an "error" in my program.
I checked it with another program and it... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am new to AWK and unix scripting. Please see below my problem and let me know if anyone you can help.
I have 2 input files (example given below)
Input file 2 is a standard file (it will not change) and we have to get the name (second column after comma) from it and append it... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to scripting.
How do I read multiple lines from the command line?
I know read reads one line, but if I have to read multiple lines, how should I do?
Thanks,
Prasanna (4 Replies)
I am writing a script where it uses yum to install. I need to read the user input for yum ie "y or n". If the user types "y", the script should continue running. If the user types "n" then the whole script should be terminated.
line1
line2
yum install package
line3
line4
From above,... (5 Replies)
Hi,
echo "Enter file name of input file list along with absolute path : "
read inputFileList
if
then
for string in `cat inputFileList`
do
echo $string
done
else
echo " file does not exist"
fi
From the above code, if the user enters a invalid file... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a little problem with my shell script (reading user input, save user input to variable, invisible characters in the log file :()
printf "1. What's your file path?"
/path/to/my/file
read -e FILE
I have invisible characters in my log file (e.g. <ESC> or ^G) when I'm... (3 Replies)
I am not able to capture the user input in this script(bash).There is prompt for user input.Could some one help me capture user input while reading afile?
while read line
do
echo "$i"
path1=$line
path2=`echo $line|sed s/new_dir/old_dir/`
echo "Do you want to replace?";... (4 Replies)
I am trying to allow a user to enter in text and then store that text in a variable $gene to run in an awk command in which those values are used to run some calculations. I am getting syntax errors however, when I try. Thank you :).
The awk runs great if it is a pre-defined file that is used,... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I am running under ubuntu1 14.04 and I have a script which is sending given process names to vanish so that I'd see less output when I run most popular tools like top etc in terminal window. In usual method it works.
Whenever I restart the system, I have to enter the same data from... (2 Replies)