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Cipher

Oct 7th, 2005 8:59 AM

Basic I/O

How do you ask for user input in BaSH?

I was wondering because I am trying to make a file sorter for myself, and I want the script to ask the user what directory that it want's me to sort.

jim mcnamara

Oct 11th, 2005 8:55 AM

echo -n "Enter directory name "

read DIRECTORY

echo "Sorting $DIRECTORY..."

Cipher

Oct 13th, 2005 5:18 PM

Thanks, that's what I needed!

mackenga

Jul 12th, 2006 5:27 PM

...but the joy of Unix is using pipelines;

$ ls | sort

Infinite Recursion

Jul 13th, 2006 8:55 AM

hah, the real joy is throwing in some parameters...

$ ls -lastr | sort

:)

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