Shell Programming and Scripting

$ cat myScript
printf "Type y to continue: "
read ans
if [ "$ans" != y ]; then
  echo Exiting.
  exit 0
fi

printf "Type a number: "
read num

printf "Enter the default bin path: "
read path

echo
echo "You entered the number: $num"
echo "You entered the path: $path"

$ cat answers.txt 
y
33
/usr/bin

$ cat answers.txt | ./myScript
Type y to continue: Type a number: Enter the default bin path: 
You entered the number: 33
You entered the path: /usr/bin

question1=answer1
question2=answer2
...

my %config;
open (my $fh, "config.file");
while (chomp(my $line=<$fh>)) {
  my @fields = split /=/, $line;
  $config{$fields[0]}=$fields[1];
}

$config{question1}
$config{question2}