Linux Command Line – Shell Scripts: Reading user input with the read command

This video was created for students in my college class on using the Linux/UNIX command line (tonysako.com). In this video you will learn how to prompt the user for input and then use the read command to read whatever the user types and store it in a variable. You will also learn how to use the -n option with echo to build prompts that keep the cursor on the same line as the prompt.