read

Shell builtin for retrieving data from stdin. More information: <https://manned.org/read.1p>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/read.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install 9base
Ubuntu
apt-get install 9base
Alpine
apk add bash
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S 9base
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install 9base
CentOS
yum install bash
Fedora
dnf install bash
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install 9base
OS X
brew install bash
Raspbian
apt-get install 9base
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/read
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/read read powered by Commando

Shell builtin for retrieving data from stdin. More information: <https://manned.org/read.1p>.

  • Store data that you type from the keyboard:
    read variable
  • Do not let backslash (\\) act as an escape character:
    read -r variable
  • Read `stdin` and perform an action on every line:
    while read line; do echo "$line"; done

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