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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to set character limit on READ? Post 302879141 by jl487 on Tuesday 10th of December 2013 05:36:07 PM
Old 12-10-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Use an infinite while loop. Break from the loop when the condition is met.

Here is a sample code:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

while :
do
        print "A1: "
        read A1
        [ ${#A1} -le 8 ] && break
done

Use shell builtin to get variable length instead of wc
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I have this in a bash script, so I'm trying to use bash.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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