Shell Script help..

[djfog]

Hi to all.I need a shell script that will save in a file each line I write and then exits,while my file will be stored in my home dir.I have created something,but I must use Ctrl+C to exit.Here is my code:

#!/bin/bash
read -p "give the name of the file: " NAME
echo "Write your text"
echo "press Ctrl+C to save and exit"
i=1
while [ true ]
do
    echo -n "$i  "
    read line
    echo $line>>$NAME
    i=$((i+1))
done

This script also counts the number of lines of my text.I could your help...

[GNU-Fan]

while [true] = forever

[djfog]

well,I know this but when I tried to use while with an escape character(ex. press 000 to exit) in the file created there was also a line with the sequence 000.

[khafa]

how do you wanna stop the input(i mean there must be a way to tell the shell that you are done typing).
you can use here-documents(google for it in case) so that you give a special word to tell the shell that you are done typing the file content.
for example

cat >my_file <<done

would let you create a file called my_file then it puts everything you type in till you give it the word done.

[djfog]

Yes.I want to give a special word or symbol so that the input will stop and the word given won't be saved in my file.

[khafa]

so you can go for a here-document.
some googling and you are on track.

[djfog]

Thanks...it seems I'm finally on track...

[djfog]

On the contrary it seems I'm not on track as what I want is to input the text via the terminal.Any ideas..?

[khafa]

lol.

what do you mean by input text via the terminal?

[djfog]

I don't want to write a script that will redirect a text file to another file.I want a script that after the execution will ask for my input and it will save it to a file.What I really want is to find how I can use an escape character when I won't want to write anymore and this character won't be saved in my file.