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Old 11-17-2014
How to prompt user to define a variable?
Hi everyone,

Is it possible to define blank vaianbles and prompt user to fill them during the script execution?

A very simple example:

Code:
INPUT=
OUTPUT=

cut -f1-4 $INPUT | sed 's/hello/goodbye/g' | sort -uV > $OUTPUT

Thank you in advance!

Best wishes
Last edited by lsantome; 11-17-2014 at 06:19 PM.. Reason: error in code
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Old 11-17-2014
Try:
Code:
echo "Enter INPUT:"
read INPUT
echo "Enter OUTPUT:"
read OUTPUT
cut -f1-4 $INPUT | sed 's/hello/goodbye/g' | sort -uV > $OUTPUT

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lsantome
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Old 11-17-2014
SOLVED: It works!
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Try:
Code:
echo "Enter INPUT:"
read INPUT
echo "Enter OUTPUT:"
read OUTPUT
cut -f1-4 $INPUT | sed 's/hello/goodbye/g' | sort -uV > $OUTPUT

Perfect!
Thank you so much!
Last edited by lsantome; 11-17-2014 at 06:50 PM.. Reason: forgotten text
 
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