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. example: [code] read -p "Please enter quantity: " qty [/code] Please enter quantity: 27 # this is what I want the user to see and they could backspace over the 27 and enter another number if necessary. I've tried echoing characters out to /dev/tty but you cannot backspace over these and they are not present in the answer variable from the user. And yes I know you can use selects and other methods but that is not what I want. I want this method to work.
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