Am 01. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Mike Starke so:

> I am trying to convert a couple perl scripts to simple
> shell scripts (nothing but a simple excercise for myself).

Good. Once it's in perl, it's a shame to take the technical step back to
shell. Mind you, I love shell ( I even wrote PHP using a shell script long
before I wrote PHP using Perl ), but for most non-trivial things Perl is
better.

I got reminded of this Fri when I spawned over 3 million sub-shells for a
quick and dirty script. Next time I'll use Perl for that task :).

> The basic format I have always used went something like this:
>
> print "Enter Your Name: ";
> $name =3D <STDIN>;
> chomp $name;
>
> Would the following be the proper way for bash?
>
> echo "EnterYour Name: "
> read -e NAME
> echo $NAME

echo "<$NAME>"

That'll show you that it is indeed what you want.

You might want to add -n to the first echo.

ciao,

der.hans
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