input from command line in bash

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> man page. (I'm sure its in there...) How do you set the value of a shell 
> variable
> from the command line? Basically I want to write a shell script which askes,
> "Are you sure you want to proceed? [N/y] " and then acts according to user
> input at the command line.

http://www.ss64.com/bash/read.html

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