[Wolves] Shell Script "text variable"

[Constantin Orasan]

Hi,

>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.
>
Is this what you are looking for?

#!/bin/bash

# read from standard input
read a
# print what you read
echo I read $a

Dinel