Bash: reading input within while read loop doesn't work

Reading input within a while read loop does not seem to work

while read line
do
 echo "get some input from the user"
 read response
done < some_file.txt

execution does not pause like it would had the read been outside the loop. Why is this? Is there a workaround for reading input within a while read loop?

Solution 1:

The problem is that both read line and read response expects (and gets) data from stdin.
This question on SO explains some of it with a link to even more information.

tl;dr
The accepted answer suggests:

Read from the controlling terminal device: read input </dev/tty

Solution 2:

let the inner read command use stdin, and use a different file descriptor for the while loop

while read -u 3 line; do
  read -p "get some input from the user" response
done 3< some_file.txt

Solution 3:

Nifle has it exactly right. When you're using multiple terminals, however, you need to be specific.

For those of you coming from google, congratulations on finding this page. If you need to do any user input during a while read loop (this includes rm -i, read, or anything else), you can specify which input pipe to use.

Here's a fragment of this solution that I used:

#in declarations
thistty=$(tty)

lsuser -R LDAP -a home pgrp ALL 2>/dev/null | while read line
do
   homedir=$(echo $homedir | awk -F= '{print $2}')
   sudo rm -ir "$homedir" < $thistty
done