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241 lines
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>Chapter 8. Writing interactive scripts</H1
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>8.1. <A
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>Displaying user messages</A
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>8.1.1. <A
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>Interactive or not?</A
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>8.1.2. <A
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HREF="sect_08_01.html#sect_08_01_02"
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>Using the echo built-in command</A
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>Catching user input</A
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>Using the read built-in command</A
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>Prompting for user input</A
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>Redirection and file descriptors</A
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>File input and output</A
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>In this chapter we will discuss how to interact with the users of our scripts:</P
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>Printing user friendly messages and explanations</P
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>Catching user input</P
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>Prompting for user input</P
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>Using the file descriptors to read from and write to multiple files</P
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