[GRASS-user] Re: Editing a bash script

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Rebecca Bennett <rabennett at ymail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up Marcus, g.ask works like a charm now.

Excellent.

> Part of my script includes a choice of external. asc files, is there an
> equivalent to g.ask command the user to enter this file path/ name?

Not sure if I fully understand. But perhaps it is the "read" shell function
which you mean:

echo -n "Enter file name: "
read USERFILE

Then $USERFILE contains the file name (or whatever the user entered).

Markus