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Alex Aref
Asked: 2020-06-17 04:45:51 +0800 CST

How do I make a script asks the user for input to put in a variable in the script itself?

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As the question suggests, I made a script that inserts a specific statement in a specific line in *.ovpn file, How can I make the * as an input argument so that the script will ask me for it when I execute it? (I'm using EOF but I can switch to any other method that works).

Thanks in advance.

linux scripting bash

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I created script.sh and used there variable provided by user

    ./script '*'

        #!/usr/bin/env bash
    echo "Enter Text For Variable"
    read my_var
    echo "Your variable is used as you can see *.$my_var"
    echo "Positional variable is here $1"
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  2. Using read -p:

    #!/bin/bash

read -p  "Enter filename: " filename
echo "Your file is: $filename.ovpn"
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