From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tony Pires <t_pires@fox.nstn.ca>
To: "Steve Kirsch" <stk@infoseek.com>
Cc: <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: read doesn't read the second time
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 19:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <1.5.4.16.19980924022012.40cf3178@fox.nstn.ca>
X-SW-Source: 1998-09/msg00646.html

Try this:

#! /bin/sh
echo -e "enter yes/no: \c"; read answer; echo $answer
echo -e "enter yes/no: \c"; read answer; echo $answer

At 12:06 PM 9/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
>This script fails to wait for the second number to be input:
>
>read -p "enter number: " num1
>read -p "enter another number: " num2
>echo "done"
>
>

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