Shell Programming and Scripting

I intend to write a script, where the user will supply the name of the specific string that script should work on.

The first question is how do I accept the string, i.e interactively? and the second question how would the string be refrenced ?

Thanks in advance,

Odogbolu98

echo "Hello - enter your string: \c"
read string
echo "Entered: $string"

Thanks usfrog, that works fine.

odogbolu98

If you want the string entered in the command line when the script is run... it will become $1.....(you can also accept multiple inputs from the command line with $2,$3......)

So if your script (named my_script) was this:

FIRST_NAME=$1
MIDDLE_NAME=$2
FAMILY_NAME=$3
echo "Your full name is $1 $2 $3! I will call you $1"
echo "Hello $1"

Then you could run the script like this

my_script Peter Michael Herlihy

And it would return

Your full name is Peter Michael Herlihy! I will call you Peter
Hello Peter

Hope this helps....sometimes it's better to prompt during the script..other times it's better having it on the command line...depends on the scripts audience.