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Manpage of ASK
ASK
Section: Shell script tools (1)
Updated: 7th December 2003
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NAME
ASK - prompt for text string
SYNOPSIS
ask
[-usage | -help]
[payload command]
[prompt string]
>& <log file>
DESCRIPTION
ask(1)
prompts for a text string. If a user prompt
prompt_string
is supplied,
ask(1)
will use it as a prompt. Otherwise the (default) prompt
ask>
will be used. The text string is read from
standard input.
In addition, a
payload command
may also be specified. This command runs for the lifetime of the current invocation
of
ask(1)
and is used to circumvent signal scheduling problems in shellscripts which call
ask(1)
for input
OPTIONS
-usage | -help
display help and copyright information for the
ask(1)
filter.
prompt
is the prompt which
ask(1)
displays. Defaults to
ask>
payload
specified a
payload command
(which may be a shell/perl/TCL script) which runs for the lifetime of the current
invocation of
ask(1).
SIGNALS
ask(1)
has handlers for
SIGHUP,
SIGQUIT,
SIGINT
and
SIGTERM
active when running a payload command. Otherwise signal handling is default.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
None.
COPYRIGHT
(C) Tumbling Dice Ltd.
PROGRAMMER
M.A. O'Neill.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- SIGNALS
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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- COPYRIGHT
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- PROGRAMMER
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