Is there a way to make the input of the read command (or some similar command that I'm unaware of) not visible, or with an astrix??
An example:
Where the read input is, instead of seeing "John" being typed, it is blank, or with some non-alphabetical filler.
I'm just curious is this is possible.
'Morning
vmstat 1 1|sed 1,2d|awk '{printf("%s\n",$1)}'|read var
echo $var
This syntax run on AIX (ksh) but not on linux (bash).
I think that problem is the read command, because the following syntax is ok :
vmstat 1 1|sed 1,2d|awk '{printf("%s\n",$1)}'
Could someone help me!
regards... (16 Replies)
I have file which is space filled likE below
Note: here spaces are replaced by |.
When I use read command to read this file all the spaces are truncated only the default space is not removed. The output is
Note: here spaces are replaced by |.
Can this default truncation be override? (4 Replies)
hi all
iam not able use read command in the while loop in the following program
while read line
do
echo $line
echo "enter name"
read name
echo "your have entered $name"
done < work.txt
THE READ COMMAND INSIDE THE WHILE LOOP IS NOT WORKING, IS ANY OTHER WAY TO SOLVE THIS... (7 Replies)
Is there a way to use the READ command and force the user to enter a non-zero length string? If the user enters a zero length string the user input is rejected.
code:
print "what is the answer: \n"
read answer (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have problem while writing a shell script for linux (Red Hat).
First I need to create a read command. I tried to google this but so far I can't sort this out. I hope you will be able to help me.
I have to read a file like this :
GESTION_DATA_SET_variable1_variable2
... (2 Replies)
Hey, guys!
Trying to research this is such a pain since the read command itself is a common word. Try searching "unix OR linux read command examples" or using the command substitution keyword. :eek:
So, I wanted to use a command statement similar to the following.
This is kinda taken... (2 Replies)
Hello guys,
I am trying to a script that reads from key board and use the entered value in the next step.
Example: enter folder name
read $folder (i will give work)
cd /main/$folder/
pwd
it should print /main/work
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Hi,
I am facing issues with the below:
I have a lookup file say lookup.lkp.This lookup.lkp file contains strings delimited by comma(,).
Now i want to read this command from file and execute it.
So my code below is :
Contents in the lookup.lkp file is :
c_e,m,a,`cd $BOX | ls cef_*|tail... (7 Replies)
Trying to use the read command. How do you add a 2nd option? In this example I'd like to offer two options, pre and post. If you answer pre, you get one output but if you answer post, you get another output.
echo Is this pre or post?
read pre
if
then echo You have typed pre.
fi (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimmyf
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SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command
SYNOPSIS
shtool echo [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string
DESCRIPTION
shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold
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OPTIONS
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By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
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-e, --expand
If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the
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%B switch terminal mode to bold display mode.
%b switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.
%u the current user name.
%U the current user id (numerical).
%g the current group name.
%G the current group id (numerical).
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%d the current domain name.
%D the current day of the month.
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