[Wolves] Shell Script "text variable"

[chris procter]

Hi,

You need something like this...

echo "enter the DVD name:"
read NAME
echo $NAME

which prompts the user for the name, reads it into the
$NAME variable and prints it to stdout.

chris


--- David Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> 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.
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