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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 05-16-2016

Bash - How to do a "read -p" inside a while loop?

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Wow! Thank you for your reply! I will try that...

Wow! Thank you for your reply! I will try that as soon as I get home tonight :)

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I thank...

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 05-16-2016

Bash - How to do a "read -p" inside a while loop?

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Bash - How to do a "read -p" inside a while loop?

Hi there guys!

I was trying to do:

while read line; do
if [ $cont -eq 5 ]; then
read -p "Press Enter to continue..."
cont=0
fi

echo $line

let cont++

done < file.txt...

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