#!/bin/sh echo -e "Please enter your name: \c" read NAME echo
"Your name is $NAME." exit 0The c means that the line feed will
be suppressed, so that the prompt sits at the end of the line,
not at the beginning of the following line. Two more common
controls available to the echo command are to use n to add a
line feed, and t to add a tab. Multiple values may be read on a
single line by using: #!/bin/sh echo -e "Please enter two
numbers: \c" read NUM1 NUM2 echo The numbers entered are $NUM1
and $NUM2 exit 0This ensures that if two numbers are entered on
a single line, they will be read within two variables. If three
numbers were entered, the second variable (NUM2) would contain
the last two numbers. Assuming three numbers were the input of
the above example, the first two numbers could be assigned to
the first variable by entering them as num1 num2 num3 The
backslash () allows the blank space between num1 and num2 to be
part of the variable (ordinarily, spaces are used as field
seperators.