Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:04:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Making sh script pause for input Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10004250959270.13917-100000@yolen.oit.umass.edu>
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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 but this just goes through the whole file echoing stuff. How do I make it wait for me to type in a value for STATUS. I'm sure I'm going to discover that the answer is in man sh, but I haven't found it yet, and I'd like to get the script going to make an unpleasant task easier. Thanks in advance for pointers. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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