I have this code snippet I am working on for a small project I am doing:

echo "Please enter SUID: ";

read $uid



uid_Assoc(){

        arg1=$1

        echo $1;

}



uid_Assoc

Now to start, I would like this to prompt for a string and read the string. From there I would like to pass that string as an argument and echo it out. But I am not sure how to pass the string off as a parameter. When I attempt to do something like:

uid_Assoc($uid)

It throws a syntax error (I figured that would be incorrect anyways). Are there any suggestions on how to do this?

UPDATE: I also tried re-arranging the code a bit to look like this:

function uid_Assoc(){

        arg1=$1

        echo $1;

}

echo "Please enter SUID: ";

read $uid

uid_Assoc $uid

But that didn't seem to work either.