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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 1628

BASH - Prompt paste multiple lines of input save to file

I have a script that asks my users for some input. name, id, location etc

Is it possible for them to paste multiple lines of data into a prompt input and have that saved to a file ?

echo -e "Please enter the details:"
read data
# Do something... and save to file..

They will be pasting data similar to :

67jhub7uy86b8tib8,North 485734957934fsdfs,East 7676bh7h87g87bibi,East 89798kfhg8r9t8494,South 98onoulj5005555tr,West

There could be one line, there might be 50 lines..

Any ideas ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2056

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785856

You can use this read:

read -rp 'Please enter the details: ' -d $'\04' data

and press ctrl-D on terminal after entering your multiline data.

Check content of data variable by using

declare -p data

Upvotes: 4

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