 Okay, these are quick videos on shell script just going over the basics as quickly as I can so we can get some more fun things But so far we looked at printing stuff out to the screen with the echo command and also putting things into variables like so if I could type today echo dollar sign X or More proper like that but besides Creating the variables ourselves. How can we get user input now? I'm going to show you this It's going to be a lot more useful once we actually start writing scripts Rather than just typing stuff at the shell at the command line itself But you can use the read command and you can say read and we'll say in this case X So you say read and whatever you put next will be the variable the input is being saved to so I'll hit enter here And it's waiting for some input so I can just type in the word test Now the variable X which previously equaled hello now equals test So I can say echo dollar sign test Oh not test X and it says test so we can Now do the same thing we can call it something else that we can call it name so read name and I can now say Bob and now anytime. I've used the variable bar name. I will say Bob so I can say hello dollar sign Bob No, I'm sorry dollar sign name Bob Sorry my mind's drifting back and forth here, so Doesn't seem very useful when we're typing in the shell like this But as we get into actually writing out scripts and putting things in files that users can run it'll become much more useful so And we'll also learn a bit more about the read command and how you can Have it output stuff as well as get input But I want to show you the basics of the read command so you know how to get user input