[Wolves] Shell Script "text variable"

[David Goodwin]

David Morley wrote:
> I have 7 dvd orginals that have scratches and are refusing to play on
> our dvd players however they do play on my pc.  So I am ripping and
> burning them to a new disc.  What I want to do though is set up a
> shell script to do the converting back to dvd for me.  What I want the
> program to do is ask for the file name that is being converted, so I
> need to have an input line but how?  The rest I can manage because it
> is just $a or whatever.

In the script have :


read someVariable

After this, $someVariable can be used, e.g.

if [ "x$someVariable" == "xSomething" ]; then
     # do something here.
fi

David.

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