Screen Input: read

• Pages 867 – 871 in the textbook

• To read user input in a script, use the read built-in command:

read [-r][-p xx][-a yy][-e] [zz ...]

• where

• xx is a prompt string for -p
• yy is an array name for -a
• zz is a list of variable names.

• The -r option allows the input to contain backslashes, and -e allows vi editing of the input line.