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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is it possible to prompt for input if not given on command line? Post 302630399 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 07:21:40 PM
Old 04-25-2012
No $# is the number of params passed so you would want to check that 3 were passed with -eq 3 like this:

Code:
if [ $# -eq 3 ]
then
   decsite=$1
   rawtype=$2
   daterange=$3
else
   echo "Input site number: "
   read decsite
   echo "Input type: "
   read rawtype
   echo "Input date: "
   read daterange
fi

Schrutinizer's solution will prompt for daterange if you only pass 2 and rawtype+daterange if you only pass 1. This gives you a mix of passed and prompted values.
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