by Jesse Civ » Thu, 19 May 1994 22:53:46
This is for C shell. Bourne, Korn and bash use 'read' i.e
$ read i
$ echo $i
#!/bin/csh
echo -n "enter input : "
set in = $<
echo $in
^^^ this one was the most common response.
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Thanks to everyone who responded,
Jesse Civan
1. File input to variable input
I have a command (it happens to be mutt) that is reading input from a file
e.g.
mutt -a file -s "subject" root < /somedir/messagefile
(this may not be exactly correct but basically you get the idea)
Currently the message for the email body is read from the messagefile is
there a way to replace the "< /somedir/messagefile" with "< $somevar" so
that the file gets the input from the variable and I don't have to use a
file?. I am using the Korn shell.
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