read (Bash buildin)

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Builtins.html#index-read

read
read -p
read -r
read -r -d

echo "First command" && read && echo "Second command"

echo "First command" && (echo "Press ENTER to continue or Ctrl+C to abort"; read) && echo "Second command"

Related terms

• Builtin (Bash)
• argparse
• readline
• Azure Pipelines: ManualValidation@0
• Python: input()
• &&

See also

• read, read -r, read -p, input(), read -r -d, EOF
• Bash [ -c ], alias, &&, Bash history, Autocompletion, set, unset, export, .bash_aliases, .bashrc and .bash profile, PS1, echo, brace expansion, Function, shopt, trap, set -e, source, PATH, complete, disown, .hushlogin, .bashrc, builtin, eval, set, $PATH, $HOME, TZ, .profile, -e, -i, Builtin (Bash), mapfile, ~, return (Bash), for, until, declare, dirname, basename, functions.sh, Bash arithmetic expansion, shift, bash --rcfile, readonly, $1, $@