Re: bash NEWBIE I/O and I/O redirection problems

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 07:58:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I suspect an appropriate response would be being pointed an
> *atypical* tutorial.
> A Google search for "bash tutorial pipe redirect" [w/o quotes] gave
> results for "normal" users. I have and odd use case. I had assumed
> bash as shell but am open to using another shell if it is more
> appropriate.
> 
> The following, though using bash syntax, should be considered
> *PSEUDO* code.
> 
> # stdout and stderr will be a MATE terminal window
> # this was required to address a problem outside scope of this post
> gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false

Others have answered many things. Let me pick a nit:

> while true
>   do
>     echo "Insert medium, press Enter key (or Ctrl+C to end)"
>     read dummyvar

The builtin 'read' has an option -p (like 'prompt') which makes
this a bit nicer:

  
   read -p "Insert medium, press Enter key (or Ctrl+C to end) " dummyvar

Regards
- -- tomás
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