skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta) (08/10/90)
Pardon my ignorance wizards! I am confronted with a very simple
and tricky problem which I am not able to solve. The problem
comes with the following shell script:
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#! /bin/sh
read_KEY1() { echo -n "Key => " ; read key;
while [ -z "$key" ]
do
echo Key cannot be blank , Type again
echo -n "Key => " ; read key;
done
}
read_KEY1
echo "The Key is: " $key
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This will just ask you for the value of key until you type something.
The problem is to pass the string as a parameter and let
it assign value the user types into it.
e.g.
read_KEY1 "key"
should define a new variable called key and
assigns it's value according to what user types.
I am not able to solve this ! Please help me
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In article <7298@helios.TAMU.EDU> skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta) writes:
$ read_KEY1 "key"
$
$ should define a new variable called key and
$ assigns it's value according to what user types.
$
$ I am not able to solve this ! Please help me
Use `eval'.
Chet
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