“读取”命令未在 bash 中弹出输入 window（无终端运行时）

Question

I am having some issues where running a script that I have placed in my file browsers scripts folder making it runnable from the right-click menu, is not capable of actually producing a prompt for user-input when the read command is called.

Is there any way to force it to create the prompt?

This is the code I am using to test it, nothing much:

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Hour " answer
hours=$answer

My script is being invoked from the right-click menu in Nemo (the file browser in Linux Mint 19.2), being installed in /home/username/.local/share/nemo/scripts .

read works fine from a terminal, or running a script with "run in terminal", but the right-click menu in Nemo doesn't start one.

Answer 1

This was based on a misunderstanding of what the read command does. As pointed out by both tripleee and charles duffy, the read command can't actually create its own terminal window. On my OS, Zenity is preinstalled, so the following works correctly as a replacement for read -p 'This is a test! ' myvar read -p 'This is a test! ' myvar :

#!/bin/bash
myvar=$(zenity --entry --text="This is a test!")