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Re: Script to prompt Linux user for hostname and unique NFS share

 
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Nov 20th, 2008
Check out "read"! It will take the user input and do whatever you want with it.

Shell Scripting Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. read -p "what is your name?  " name
  2. echo "Nice to meet you $name"

Hope that helps!
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