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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Noob. shell script with prompt? Post 302982016 by Corona688 on Thursday 22nd of September 2016 12:52:23 PM
Old 09-22-2016
If you're not in BASH, you don't get read -p.

Most shells should have read -r, you must be in a really old or minimal shell if you don't. Luckily -r isn't mandatory, it just prevents read from handling backslashes.

Also, be careful with spaces inside [ ] brackets. Each separate item must be separated by whitespace.

Code:
printf "Files will be overwritten, continue?"
read CONT
if [ "$CONT" = "y" ]; then
   mkdir /home/patient/backup-`gx125-svr`;
else
   exit;
fi

I don't know what gx125-svr is.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

sane-xerox_mfp

sane-xerox_mfp(5)					   SANE Scanner Access Now Easy 					 sane-xerox_mfp(5)

NAME

       sane-xerox_mfp - SANE backend for Xerox Phaser 3200MFP device

DESCRIPTION

       The  sane-xerox_mfp  library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to the following Xerox USB multifunc-
       tion-peripheral:

	      Phaser 3200MFP

       If you own a scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this backend, please let us know this by sending the scanner's  exact
       model  name  and  the USB vendor and device ids (e.g. from /proc/bus/usb/devices, sane-find-scanner or syslog) to us. Even if the scanner's
       name is only slightly different from the models mentioned above, please let us know.

CONFIGURATION

       None required.

FILES

       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-xerox_mfp.a
	      The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-xerox_mfp.so
	      The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading).

ENVIRONMENT

       SANE_DEBUG_XEROX_MFP If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug  level  for  this
       backend.  Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.

       Example: export SANE_DEBUG_XEROX_MFP=4

SEE ALSO

       sane(7), sane-usb(5),

AUTHOR

       Alex Belkin <abc@telekom.ru>

								    15 Dec 2008 						 sane-xerox_mfp(5)
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