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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading user input...problem with tab key Post 302881083 by splendid on Thursday 26th of December 2013 12:49:38 PM
Old 12-26-2013
Everything from the screen is written to my log file.

The tab key in the user input produces the invisible characters!

When I'm typing the full path (without using tab) everything is alright.

---------- Post updated at 06:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:36 PM ----------

Code:
 {
 printf "1. What's your file path?"
 /path/to/my/file
 read -e FILE
  
 cp logfile.txt "$OUTPUT"
  
 } 2>&1 | tee logfile.txt
  
 rm logfile.txt

---------- Post updated at 06:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:44 PM ----------

/path/to/my/file is data typed by the user in response to the prompt printed by printf
 

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