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Old 12-18-2013
Apple Creating an Interactive Variable
Goal: I want run a Bash script that runs some conditional if statements on a specific file path that a user defines.

Question: How do I build the prompt so the script asks the user to define the file path and then use that input as a variable?

I'm guessing I will use a read builtin but I'm not sure how to apply it.

Thanks!
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Old 12-18-2013
Sample code:
Code:
echo "Enter file path:"
read path
if [ -f $path ]; then
  echo "$path is a file"
fi

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Old 12-18-2013
Awesome, this works great- appreciated.

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if [ -f $path ]; then
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Where can I find more switches such as -f, -d etc?
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Old 12-18-2013
For example here:File test operators
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