From: Rob Lucas <roblucas@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T19:44:34+09:00
Subject: Equivalent for unix "read" command in rake tasks?

Hi,

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't find information anywhere
about adding any level of interaction with the user into rake tasks.
What I want really is something equivalent to the unix/ linux command
"read" so that the task can vary conditionally depending on responses
from the user. The point would be to replace various shell scripts that
I have with a single, more elegant Rakefile.

Simply inserting the shell command...

sh "read whatever_variable_name"

... into the Rakefile doesn't work- I get the following error:

Command failed with status (127): [read whatever_variable_name...]

I guess this is because Rake doesn't respond to the results of shell
commands, but only executes them "blind".

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob.
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