Your main problem is that your echo commands, which you assumed were going to the tty, were going to the read in the main body of the script. By redirecting them to stderr, the prompt and other information go to the tty, while the echo goes into VariableName.
You could also code
since you are only capturing the output into a single variable. This would work in bash as well as kshell. The echo/printf commands still need to be redirected; it's just an alternate approach.
I changed your echo -n to a printf command. Echo has so many different implementations that when I need to do something other than normal (e.g. adding the -n) I use printf. Just a preference of mine and no real bearing here.
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I did have a go with your original script, and regardless of function definition style, function name, or name(), it works for me in both Kshell and bash. Given that your kernel seems pretty old, I'm wondering if you don't have a very old shell too. If you continue to have issues, it might be interesting to know what version of the shell you are running. Try excuting the command echo ${.sh.version} at the command line, or ksh --version.
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I want to install pecl from a single command without it asking me for a response of "yes" or "no" to finish the install...
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# pecl install pecl_http
downloading pecl_http-1.7.0.tgz ...
Starting to download... (1 Reply)
Hi,
My variable has value as this:
tvar1="bool_risk_enabled" Boolean "true"
Now I need to replace this true with false. Which is the best way to do this? Can we do this with sed command?
Please help me.
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Hi,
I am using git bash terminal window to do git operations. I have set the prompt string variable PS1 in the ~/.bashrc file as follows:
export PS1=" "
This is intended to show me the current git branch's name which is active as part of the prompt string. But, the problem is when I do a git... (2 Replies)
Hi!
I am using latest ZSH and I have setopt prompt_subst
I have a global hash array variable which contains some color definitions with color names as keys and 256-color ANSI codes (with %{ and %}) as values, eg %{\ePS1="$FG Hello World (%M) > "
or
PS1=$'$FG Hello World (%M) > '
then it... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Please let me know how to reassign value to a variable.The calling script is passing parameter as HAT_DIV but I like to pass HAT DIV ( two words) to DIV parameter.These are .ksh scripts.
# access to target - (user passwd sid) must be provided.
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Hi all - I am totally stuck here :wall
I have been asked to write a shell script that does a few little things and then reads from a config file and kicks off an instance of another script, say scriptB.ksh for each line in the config file. These should all be run in parallel. This is all fine but... (2 Replies)
I am writing a scritp in which first step is to get some files from a server.
I am using mget to do that.
here is my FTP code ...
HOST="XXX.XXX.com"
28 ftp -inv $HOST <<END &> $FTP_LOG
29 quote USER $USER
30 quote PASS $PASWD
31 cd log
32 prompt off
33 binary
34 mget... (0 Replies)
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I have a file which has hundred of records with fixed number of fields. In each record there is set of 8 characters which represent the duration of that activity. I want to sum up the duration present in all the records for a report. The problem is the duration changes per record so I... (5 Replies)
I am executing a shell script which contains a jar call to an external java package for which I don’t have a read access to. The external package was written in such a way that whenever we make a java –jar call to the package, it shows a prompt on the console asking if we want to continue or no... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to define blank vaianbles and prompt user to fill them during the script execution?
A very simple example:
INPUT=
OUTPUT=
cut -f1-4 $INPUT | sed 's/hello/goodbye/g' | sort -uV > $OUTPUTThank you in advance!
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.10 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)