have read command few first chars. fed by CL

is it possible to have the *read* command few first characters in buffer is fed by way of script code / CLI -- Sent from: http://gnu-bash.2382.n7.nabble.com/

Re: have read command few first chars. fed by CL

On 03/09/2020 15:47, almahdi wrote: is it possible to have the *read* command few first characters in buffer is fed by way of script code / CLI From "help read": -N nchars return only after reading exactly NCHARS characters, unless EOF is encountered or read times out, ignoring any

Re: have read command few first chars. fed by CL

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 07:47:25AM -0700, almahdi wrote: > > is it possible to have the *read* command few first characters in buffer is > fed by way of script code / CLI It's a bit unclear what you're really trying to do here, but I'm guessing you want to pre-populate the user's input for a read