| Jari Aalto | bb70624 | 2000-03-17 21:46:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # interactive |
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| 3 | # from tty | ||||
| 4 | read -n 3 -p 'enter three chars: ' xyz | ||||
| 5 | echo | ||||
| 6 | echo $xyz | ||||
| 7 | |||||
| 8 | # using readline | ||||
| 9 | read -p 'enter 3 chars: ' -e -n 3 abc | ||||
| 10 | # readline outputs a newline for us, so we don't need the extra echo | ||||
| 11 | echo $abc | ||||