How many number of errors in this shell script

echo How are you?
read $answer

There are two errors in this script. First is the ? . It is a meta character. So. when the shell encounters ? , it will try for a match, with the files in the current directory. made up of just one character. Use ? , to suppress the special meaning of ? . $answer means the value of the variable answer. Since you are reading the value of the variable answer, it should he read answer.