On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to interact with the user from an init script ...
I've always just used the "read" built-in for this. echo -n "What is your name? " read FOO echo "You're a real frood, $FOO. You really know where your towel is." > ... how to set stdin and stdout in a (bash) init script. I'm not sure what you mean by this...? > Also tried to RTFM, but couldn't figure out which M to R. :) Some time spent with "man bash" was very productive for me, in terms of shell scripting. I can imagine it wouldn't be for everyone, though. :) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
