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11 lines
215 B
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# interactive
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# from tty
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read -n 3 -p 'enter three chars: ' xyz
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echo
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echo $xyz
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# using readline
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read -p 'enter 3 chars: ' -e -n 3 abc
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# readline outputs a newline for us, so we don't need the extra echo
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echo $abc
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