Question

read -p "Which server do you want to know about: "
read var_server
echo $var_server
for $var_server
  do
    $echo ping -a $var_server
    $ehco nmap -O $var_server
done

My script hangs on the “read var server” when i execute with sh -x, could anyone advise thanks. It just stops and sits on the

+ read var_server

Not sure where i am going wrong

Thanks
Bill

Answer 1

You have two separate read calls. Combine them into one single call so you’re only prompted for one piece of information:

read -p "Which server do you want to know about: " var_server

Also the for loop is nonsensical. You’ve only got one server, there’s nothing to loop over, so delete the loop. Then you wrote $echo and $ehco instead of echo. So change the entire for loop to just these two lines:

echo ping -a $var_server
echo nmap -O $var_server