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Bash-Scripting: any way to pre-initialize readline's edit buffer with a user-defined string?
- From: Sven Severus <s dot severus at hima dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:00:48 +0100
- Subject: Bash-Scripting: any way to pre-initialize readline's edit buffer with a user-defined string?
Hello,
a simple (i hope ;->) question for bash scripting experts:
I want to write a script, that interactivly prompts the user
for a couple of input items. So my bash code looks like
this: read -er -p"ItemX: " ITEMX
Most of the items have default values, and I would find it
very user-friendly, if readline's edit buffer would be pre-
initialized with this default value, instead of an empty string.
Then the user just has to hit <return> to enter the default
value, very comfortable.
Any idea how to achieve this?
Thanks.
Best regards
Sven
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