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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to automatically pass 'multiple' user inputs Post 302690603 by itkamaraj on Thursday 23rd of August 2012 07:30:47 AM
Old 08-23-2012
you can pass it as arguments and read the value using $1 and $2 inside the script

Code:
 
./ask.sh "Mickey" "23"

otherwise, use it like this

Code:
 
$ cat d.sh
#!/bin/sh
read a b
echo "a value is : $a"
echo "b value is : $b"

 
$ echo "YES NO" | d.sh
a value is : YES
b value is : NO

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