Hi Ben,

On 2016-05-24 08:18:43, you wrote to All:

 BR> I need to 1) display a prompt, 2) accept an alphanumeric value and
 BR> assign it to an environment variable, then 3) test the variable and
 BR> act on it's value(s). I can do 1) and 3) but how do I accept data into
 BR> the environment?

 BR> I perused a few scripts and studied how to assign values to the
 BR> environment, etc., but keyboard input seems to be a rare case {chuckle}.

Bash has the builtin 'select' command, but also have a look at the 'dialog'
command...

Bye, Wilfred.

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