Category: Bash Scripts

Added: 2nd of August 2022

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Create a simple bash script in Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions


Getting user input bash scripts

The following bash script gets the user input by using the read command and then printing out the results in the terminal.

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Copy and past the code below in to your text editor, save the file as user_input.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash

echo "What is your name?"
read name
echo "How old are you?"
read age
echo "Hello $name, you are $age years old"


Make the file executable by entering the following command
chmod +x user_input.sh


Run the script by entering
./user_input.sh