Hello,

I would like to create perl script that take the default value instead of waiting for me to enter the enter.

I have running script that make key for vpn and when I run the script it will start creating key and then ask me questions like
what is your country[:us]
what is your state name[:nj]
......

so every time I just have to enter cause I need to enter only default values. So is there any way that I can create script that just take me directly to the end without waiting for me to enter anything and taking by default values. Thanks in advance for help.

My suggestions would be:

1. Implement a timer so if nothing pressed use the default
or
2. Pass a command line value to script that you can test and if available skip all questions and use the assigned defaults

try something like
if country =="" then country='us'

try this:

~>
~> read -e -p "what is your country? Default - Enter to accept or edit : " -i "US" country_of_origin
what is your country? Default - Enter to accept or edit : US
~> echo $country_of_origin
US
~>