Re: Adding entries to ldap addressbook

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, February 29 at 12:46 AM, quoth Nathan Huesken:
> So the script needs to get the eMail from stdin, but also be 
> intaractive with the user (utilizing the read command).
>
> If I do:
> <pipe-message>script<enter>

The reason the read command exits is that, by default, the read 
command will read from stdin. Since stdin is the *message*, which by 
that point you've already processed, you need to get the read command 
to read from the *terminal* instead of stdin.

The same thing would happen if you did something like this:

     cat message | script

So, in your script, you have to be able to tell the read command to 
read from the terminal.

The easiest way may be to do something like this in your script:

     read -p 'is this correct? [y/n] ' answer <$TTY

~Kyle
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