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"
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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.
In order to do this a helper application is usually n
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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