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 -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) . _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
