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[read] Execute and understand. Assign user input to variables and display.

created-2025/12/14 updated-2026/03/15

Introduction

This repository executes the read command, assigns it to the specified variable, and displays the contents using the echo command.

The commands you need to install

  1. None in paticular

Quickstart

Run the read command to retrieve and display the variables.

ubuntu

read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Output results
username:user password:admin

macos

MacPorts

read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Output results
username:user password:admin

windows

WSL2

read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Output results
username:user password:admin

MSYS2 MINGW64

read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Output results
username:user password:admin

Procedure

ubuntu

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Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.

Nothing in paticular

preinstall

Please install the command that shows “command not found” in the terminal using the following command.

Nothing in paticular

command

Executing the following command in the terminal should output a string similar to the following:

read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Detail
username:user password:admin

macos

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.

Nothing in paticular

*MacOS uses the MacPorts package manager to manage commands. If you haven’t installed it yet, please refer to the MacPorts installation instructions at the link below. Also, set an alias for the command so that you can call the command without conflicting with the existing environment. If you are using this blog for the first time, please refer to the following two articles to set up your environment.

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the terminal, install it using the following command and set an alias.

Nothing in paticular

command

Executing the following command in the terminal should output a string similar to the following:

read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Detail
username:user password:admin

windows

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the prompt and if command not found does not appear, it’s OK.

WSL2
Nothing in paticular
MSYS2 MINGW64
Nothing in paticular

*Windows has been confirmed to work with WSL2 and MSYS2 MINGW64. Please install WSL2 if possible, and if you are unable to set it up, you can run it by installing MSYS2, but there may be some commands that can only be run in WSL2. Please refer to the following article for instructions on how to install WSL2 and MSYS2.

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the prompt, please install it using the following command.

WSL2
Nothing in paticular
MSYS2 MINGW64
Nothing in paticular

command

By executing the following command at the prompt, you should get the following output:

WSL2
read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Detail
username:user password:admin
MSYS2 MINGW64
read -p "username: " username
read -s -p "password: " password
echo "username:""$username"" password:""$password"
Detail
username:user password:admin

Afterword

By adding the -p option, like read -p, you can display an input prompt. The -s in read -s prevents characters from being displayed while you are typing. In this example, the username and password written at the end are assigned variables, and by specifying the variables with the echo command, you can check the user input obtained with read.

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