On 2007-08-31, Phil Endecott wrote: > Dear Bash and Readline Experts, > > I have a simple shell script that reads user commands in a loop using > "read -e". -e enables readline, but not its history feature. Is there > any way to get readline history with bash's read builtin? > > I wouldn't want to get the user's regular bash history; rather, this > program would need its own history file in the user's home directory. > For example: > > read -e --historyfile=~/.myprogname_history CMD
history -r ~/.myprogname_history read -ep ">> " CMD -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) .
