I know there is many similar questions but I was not able to find an answer for mine:
I have couple of if and checking to get to this point of source script to call another script
source ./call.sh
And in destination script I want to get user name from user:
#!/bin/bash
passDir="/etc/passwd"
while true
do
#propmt for username
read -p "Enter username : " username
egrep "^$username" $passDir >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "$username exists!"
else
userName=$username
break
fi
done
But it doesn't wait for me to enter anything. It goes inside a loop and print exist unless I press Ctrl+C I appreciate if anyone can give me suggestion how to do it. In my destination script I have dozen of other prompts to get input from the user When I run destination script alone it works fine.
