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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting change standard input ? Post 302262425 by Franklin52 on Thursday 27th of November 2008 09:19:53 AM
Old 11-27-2008
To read the values from standard input you can do something like this::

Code:
echo -n "Enter variable 1: "
read var1
echo -n "Enter variable 2: "
read var2

echo "$var1"
echo "$var2"

Have a read of a tutorial/book regarding shell scripting, here you can find some links:

https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...tutorials.html

Regards
 

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