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John Wick
John Wick

Reputation: 29

Shell script read multiple inputs from user

How to read any number of inputs from user at once and store it into an array. For example this will read only a single input at a time

  read -p "Please enter username: " username
  echo "Dear $username,"

I want something like:

read -p "Please enter location names separated by space: "

How would i store location names into an array and then loop through it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 19625

Answers (2)

UtLox
UtLox

Reputation: 4154

try this:

#!/bin/bash
read -r -p "Please enter location names separated by space: " -a arr
for location in "${arr[@]}"; do 
   echo "$location"
done

Upvotes: 3

PilouPili
PilouPili

Reputation: 2699

read -p "Please enter location names separated by space: " location_names

for location in $location_names
do
echo $location
done

Testing.

Please enter location names separated by space: paris london new-york
paris
london
new-york

Upvotes: 1

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