-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 07:58:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect an appropriate response would be being pointed an > *atypical* tutorial. > A Google search for "bash tutorial pipe redirect" [w/o quotes] gave > results for "normal" users. I have and odd use case. I had assumed > bash as shell but am open to using another shell if it is more > appropriate. > > The following, though using bash syntax, should be considered > *PSEUDO* code. > > # stdout and stderr will be a MATE terminal window > # this was required to address a problem outside scope of this post > gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
Others have answered many things. Let me pick a nit: > while true > do > echo "Insert medium, press Enter key (or Ctrl+C to end)" > read dummyvar The builtin 'read' has an option -p (like 'prompt') which makes this a bit nicer: read -p "Insert medium, press Enter key (or Ctrl+C to end) " dummyvar Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgPJHgACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZeQgCcDJQ/VI36kzfywE9dXCJzlLL6 v/AAnjZ9VYU1HIeA3D1vk7AnVYhKIhJB =DWmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
