How do i use the read command to print a message for user input?

vaquitasos

In past examples we have use echo command first and then the read command for user input. These two can be combined in the read command as follows:

              -p prompt
                     Display prompt on standard error, without a trailing new‐
                     line, before attempting to read any input.  The prompt is
                     displayed only if input is coming from a terminal.

The variable in the code below is weather.

...
read -p "Hello, do you think it will rain today? " weather
...

Syntax is:

read -p "msg" variable