Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:45:39 -0700 From: Ryan Davis <ryand@zenspider.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Making sh script pause for input Message-ID: <p04310101b52b6d60f1b1@[216.39.164.68]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10004250959270.13917-100000@yolen.oit.umass.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10004250959270.13917-100000@yolen.oit.umass.edu>
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At 10:04 -0400 on 2000-04-25, you wrote:
0D
>This is driving me nuts. I want a script that prompts with a
>student's name and then waits for input regarding that student
>then moves on. I've tried using xargs and a script like this:
>
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>while read LOGNUM CLASS LNAME FNAME GPA MAJOR ;
>do
>echo $FNAME $LNAME ;
>echo -n "Status? " ;
>read STATUS ;
>echo "$LOGNUM $CLASS $LNAME $FNAME $GPA $MAJOR $STATUS" >> newfile ;
>done < contractsS00
I don't think 'read' exists in the bourne shell, but it does in bash.
Some UNIX-like systems (and you know who you are) ship with bash as
/bin/sh, so that might be where you have seen it used. Bash installs
very easily out of the ports.
Personally, I always do things like this with perl, and then wrap the
perl w/ a shell script if it must be a shell script.
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