how to get user input with a prompt into a variable in a posix compliant way

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read -r -p "put an option: " option
echo $option

this works but shellcheck gives me:

In POSIX sh, read -p is undefined.

How to get user input with a prompt into a variable in a posix compliant way?

Asked by testoflow (137 rep)

May 20, 2021, 08:31 PM
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