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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Getting user input from inside a while loop? Post 302357093 by Azumandious on Monday 28th of September 2009 04:55:08 PM
Old 09-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by daPeach
Code:
echo 'Are you sure you want to make these changes? y/n '
read  -sn1a < $(tty)

As loops are executed in a subshell, they can't read from the same stdin as the script is executed.
I'm afraid I don't fully understand. I see the logic in attaching the -sn1 to the read file. That makes it accept y, Y, yes, Yes, n, N, no, and No without having to go through the whole if or statement that I wrote. But I don't know what the -a < $(tty) does. and I don't see how it would help me deal with the stdin issue.
Do you know of a way I could write my code to get around that?
 

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