Re: no way to give 'select' a default value

2011-02-22 Thread Clark J. Wang
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:05:34PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > There is no way to give the 'select' command a default value, so all the > > user does is need to hit return. > > $ help select > > ... If the line is empty, WORDS

Re: no way to give 'select' a default value

2011-02-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:05:34PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > There is no way to give the 'select' command a default value, so all the > user does is need to hit return. > $ help select > ... If the line is empty, WORDS and the prompt are redisplayed. `select' is extremely limited. I

no way to give 'select' a default value

2011-02-21 Thread jidanni
There is no way to give the 'select' command a default value, so all the user does is need to hit return. $ help select ... If the line is empty, WORDS and the prompt are redisplayed. Well OK, If EOF is read... but many users aren't familiar with ^D.