Shell script to ask for favourite colour with a time limit

Linux bash script allows you to accept user inputs within the time limit and read what user types on the screen. This is achieved by Linux read with -t command within the script. In the below script, we will be asking users their favorite color and the user has to enter within 5 seconds and prompt the user with the input they have typed on the screen else exit from the script.

vi favourite_color.sh

# !/bin/bash

read -t 5 -p "Type your favorite color: " color
echo $color

Here is the sample output of the above script.

More ways to use a time limit Input Bash Script

• We can set a time limit for the password section, if the user delay entering the password then the user will exit from the login.

• You use a time limit with a quiz where the user has to answer the question within time.