read command doesn't wait for input
bash, readline, wait
Solution
Because your script starts with `#!/bin/sh` rather than `#!/bin/bash`, you aren't guaranteed to have bash extensions (such as `read -p`) available, and can rely only on standards-compliant functionality.
See the relevant standards document for a list of functionality guaranteed to be present in `read`.
In this case, you'd probably want two lines, one doing the print, and the other doing the read:
printf 'press [ENTER] to continue deleting...'
read _
Problem
I have problem executing a simple script in bash. The script is like this: ``` #! /bin/sh read -p 'press [ENTER] to continue deleting line' sudo sed -ie '$d' /home/hpccuser/.profile ``` and when I execute the script with ./script the output is like this: ``` press [ENTER] to continue deleting line./script: 3: read: arg count [sudo] password for user ``` I run the read command directly in terminal (copy and paste from script to terminal) and it works fine; it waits for an ENTER to be hit (just like a pause).