line — Copy one line of standard input

Format

line

The line utility is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX systems. However, it is recommended that the read utility be used instead because it may provide greater functionality and is considered the standard for portable UNIX applications as defined by POSIX.2 IEEE standard 1003.2-1992.

Description

Examples

echo “Enter name:\c”
NAME='line'

Localization

line uses the following localization environment variables:

LANG
LC_ALL
LC_MESSAGES
NLSPATH

See Localization for more information.

Exit values

0: A line was read successfully
1: line reached end-of-file before finding a newline character

Portability

X/Open Portability Guide, UNIX System V.

Related information

cat, head, read, sh, tail