Sorry....i want to use bash scripting for this....should have had that in original message if it is even relevant Dan Lansing -----Original Message----- From: Lansing, Dan Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:34 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] scripting I am very new to scripting....i want to write a script that asks me to enter a variable and the plugs that into a command For example I run test.sh And it asks me for a file name I enter 'file' and it renames 'file' to 'file1' How can I do this? Anyone know of any good sites to get scripting tutorials? thanks Dan Lansing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030807/e7423aab/attachment.htm