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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting getting rid of $ when entered at the command line Post 35270 by Perderabo on Friday 4th of April 2003 09:41:26 AM
Old 04-04-2003
The problem is that the interactive shell that is accepting the command line will treat $ specially. This happens before it even locates your coins script. Quoting the $ is an option.

Another option is to prompt the user for input and then read it yourself. And to strip off a dollar sign, you don't need sed when you're using ksh...

#! /usr/bin/ksh

print -n "Enter amount - "
read amt
print amt is $amt
amt=${amt#$}
print amt is $amt
exit
 

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amt(1)								   User Commands							    amt(1)

NAME
amt - run abstract machine test SYNOPSIS
amt [-s] DESCRIPTION
The amt command is for use in a Common Criteria security certified system. The command is used to verify that the low level functions nec- essary to enforce the object reuse requirements of the Controlled Access Protection Profile are working correctly. /usr/bin/amt is a shell script that executes tests specific to your system. For a 32-bit system, the tests run as a 32-bit application. For a 64-bit system, the tests run twice; once as a 32-bit application and once as a 64-bit application. amt lists test results with a pass or fail for each test it performs, unless output is suppressed with the -s option. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -s Suppresses output. EXIT STATUS
The following error values are returned: 0 All tests passed. >0 Count of the number of tests that failed. <0 Incorrect command line argument. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 19 Aug 2003 amt(1)
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