I don't have access to MacOS, I'm amazed the most recent releases ship with a 12 year old shell (whats going on there). Checking the exit status of read after the stty command appears to work OK in bash 4.4.12 and 5.0.7
I found the redirect of stderr necessary because cygwin sometimes reports read: read error: 0: Resource temporarily unavailable, but I never caught it not flushing all the input.
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I am trying to create a shell (ksh) which has two "read" commands, one which reads a line from a file and another which is inside a loop that reads user input from a keyboard. However, the "read" command inside the loop uses the input from the file and it does not get the user input from keyboard.... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
How can i have a user input that reads like this:
echo -n "Please enter a & b:" 10 20
read a
read b
echo $a
echo $b
10
20
right now i have divided it into two echos, like
echo -n "a: "
echo -n "b: " (1 Reply)
I'm trying to set up a script that takes user input and validates that the user input was entered correctly.
So far I have this:
while :
do
echo "Please enter your name."
read NAME
if
then
echo "You have not entered a name."
echo... (13 Replies)
If I want all user input to start with " : " if not display error
or what I asking is how to do if statement that control a first letter of string that we want to start with. and not worry about the rest
Thank (1 Reply)
Hi,
echo "Enter file name of input file list along with absolute path : "
read inputFileList
if
then
for string in `cat inputFileList`
do
echo $string
done
else
echo " file does not exist"
fi
From the above code, if the user enters a invalid file... (1 Reply)
i have a script which takes input from user, if user gives either Y/y then it should continue, else it should quit by displaying user cancelled.
#!/bin/sh
echo " Enter your choice to continue y/Y OR n/N to quit "
read A
if
then
echo " user requested to continue "
##some commands... (7 Replies)
$Input_filename=$ARGV;
if (!-d $Input_filename && ! -e $Input_filename)
{
print "USAGE: Please enter '$ABCD/def/dsed.txt' as an arguement \n";
exit;
}
1. Input Is suppose to be something like "$ABCD/def/dsed.txt".
if the input is wrong the script should throw an ERROR message.... (2 Replies)
Why does removing "rhgb quiet" from the kernel boot parameters control whether or not the commands I enter are displayed in single user mode ?
For instance, if I do not remove "rhgb quiet", when I am in single user mode, whatever command I type will not be displayed on the screen.
The... (0 Replies)
I am trying to allow a user to enter in text and then store that text in a variable $gene to run in an awk command in which those values are used to run some calculations. I am getting syntax errors however, when I try. Thank you :).
The awk runs great if it is a pre-defined file that is used,... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
sim
sim(5) File Formats Manual sim(5)NAME
sim, SIM - Software phrase input method
DESCRIPTION
The phrase input method is an input method that is commonly used in a Chinese environment. The software phrase input method (SIM) is a a
mechanism supported by the Asian tty driver, atty and the simd daemon through the utx facility (see atty(7), simd(8), and utx(7)).
The stty command activates the software phrase input method, while the phrase utility creates and manages the phrase database (see stty(1)
and phrase(1)).
Changes to the phrase database may not be reflected in SIM sessions that were started before the changes were made. Therefore, users have
to stop and then restart SIM sessions using the stty command to have access to the changed phrase database.
SEE ALSO
Commands: phrase(1), stty(1), simd(8), utxd(8)
Files: atty(7), utx(7)sim(5)