Apologies, line wrapping messed up my previous reply, corrected here (I
hope).
Won't this do what you want? It obviously works on "old" bash.
echo -n "prompt:"; writevt -t `tty` -T "default"; read a;
For example:
testuser@bartlett:~$ echo -n "prompt:"; writevt -t `tty` -T "default";
read
Won't this do what you want? It obviously works on "old" bash.
echo -n "prompt:"; writevt -t `tty` -T "default"; read a;
For example:
testuser@bartlett:~$ echo -n "prompt:"; writevt -t `tty` -T "default";\
> read a; declare -p a BASH_VERSION
prompt:default
declare -- a="default"
declare --
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:27:22 +, Bob Cox wrote:
> > (Debian's minimal 'dash' also has a 'read -i', so for
> > current Debian, the '-i' is universal. Earlier versions,
> > or other *nixs might not though.)
>
> Not so sure that is correct about dash...
Whoops, you're right, it seems I did a 'man
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 21:11:29 -0500, A. Costa (agco...@gis.net) wrote:
> Bash isn't strictly needed, plain Bourne shell works, using parameter
> substitution
[...]
Thank you for you time and trouble. As it happens, I did in fact
upgrade this lenny box to use bash version 4.1-1 and all is n
Bash isn't strictly needed, plain Bourne shell works, using parameter
substitution
man sh | grep -A 2 -i "parameter:-"
${parameter:-word}
Use Default Values. If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of
word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:44:13 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote:
> PROMPT="stuff"
> DEFAULT="path"
>
> printf '%s [%s] ?' "$PROMPT" "$DEFAULT"
> read FILEPATH
> if [ -z "$FILEPATH" ]; then
> FILEPATH="$DEFAULT"
> fi
Boyd and André - thank you both for your s
In <20100306124710.gb25...@bobcox.com>, Bob Cox wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:21:27 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net)
wrote:
>> On 2010-03-06 04:28, Bob Cox wrote:
>>> -
>>> Example: ask for a path with a default value.
>>> Note: The -i option was introduced with
* Bob Cox (2010-03-06):
[...]
> -
> Example: ask for a path with a default value.
> Note: The -i option was introduced with Bash 4.
> read -e -p "Enter the path to the file: " -i "/usr/local/etc/" FILEPATH
> The user will be prompted, he can just accept the default, or edit it.
On 2010-03-06 06:47, Bob Cox wrote:
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:21:27 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote:
On 2010-03-06 04:28, Bob Cox wrote:
What I am trying to do is "preload" a bash read command with a value
which can be accepted, edited or changed by the user. Some googling
s
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:21:27 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net)
wrote:
> On 2010-03-06 04:28, Bob Cox wrote:
>> What I am trying to do is "preload" a bash read command with a value
>> which can be accepted, edited or changed by the user. Some googling
>> shows that this is dead easy
On 2010-03-06 04:28, Bob Cox wrote:
What I am trying to do is "preload" a bash read command with a value
which can be accepted, edited or changed by the user. Some googling
shows that this is dead easy to with the -i option which appeared in
bash version 4 - I have found this:
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