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Re: prefilling keyboard buffer
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: prefilling keyboard buffer |
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Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:22:35 -0400 |
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greno wrote:
> How can the keyboard buffer be prefilled with an answer for a read command?
> I want to prompt the user with a question using the read command and then
> suggest an answer that they could backspace over and change if necessary.
default="Something or other"
history -s "$default"
read -ep "Press up arrow to edit \"$default\": " XX
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