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[restin84]

I have an assignment to write a script which requires the user to input four lines of text. Those four lines of text will be manipulated in various ways. Is there a way to save these for lines of text before I save them in a file? Should I use the "read" command?

[visionviper]

What language? Or are you just making a shell script?

[restin84]

Yes it is just a shell script

[DarkLordCthulhu]

For a shell script, you should use the read command four times and save each line in a variable.

read line1;
read line2;
read line3;
read line4;

There's no need to declare or initialize the variables. read declares them implicitly.