Prompt user from bash command substitution

Question

I am looking for a one-liner to prompt user for multiple inputs and execute a command using the user inputs as arguments.

The naive approach is:

read -p          


        

Answer 1

Sounds like a homework question to get you to look at functions. If you had a function like:

input() { read -p "$1:" user_input; echo "$user_input"; }

Then your line:

the_command some_complicated_arguments "$(input shirt_size)" "$(input age)"

Would prompt and print the complete line. Although this does nothing to check for valid input or no input.