Question

i have shell script that require to do following things:
1) shell script need to store the logs to a log file.
2) shell script need to prompt user with a message and reads the input.

Example:

cat read-test.sh
echo -n "What is your name?"
read user_name

Executing this script:

./read-test.sh >> read-test.log

Expected User prompt:

What is your name?
rajiv

When i execute this script as

./read-test.sh

i get the desired output.

but when i execute this script as

./read-test.sh >> read-test.sh

“what is your name?” is saved to read-test.log file which i don’t want to.

Is there any way where i can show the user with message(“what is your name?”) and reads input?

Answer 1

The best answer depends on why you want to redirect like that, but one possible quick solution would be to change your echo line like this:

echo -n "What is your name?" > /dev/tty