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Re: Read Prompt Width Miscalculation (Non-Printing Characters)
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Read Prompt Width Miscalculation (Non-Printing Characters) |
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Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:48:40 -0500 |
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On 12/29/22 5:37 AM, The Administrator wrote:
... or you can write your prompt string as you would write PS1 and use
the ${word@P} expansion when you pass it as an argument to `read'
(preferred).
This is new to me. Thank you.
Should I write a patch for the man page?
The parameter transformations are already documented.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/