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Interacting with users through the command line is a core aspect of creating engaging and dynamic shell scripts. One of the fundamental tools for this is the read command in Bash, which allows you to receive and handle user input effectively. In this blog post, we'll delve into various ways to harness the power of read to improve your scripts by making them interactive and more user-friendly. At its simplest, the read command is used to take input from the standard input (usually, the keyboard) and assign it to a variable.