simply run a readline function among lines codes of bash script such a menu-complete, or previous-history repeated thrice, or etc
On 9/15/20, Budi <budikus...@gmail.com> wrote: > simply run a readline function among lines codes of bash script such a > menu-complete, or menu-complete repeated thrice, or etc etc > > On 9/14/20, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:09:16PM +0700, Budi wrote: >>> How to do a readline function execution inside bash script as mimic to >>> actual key press ? >> >> Please tell us what you're actually trying to do. It makes a huge >> difference. >> >> You said "script", so I guess you don't want to pre-populate the input >> buffer of an interactive shell. That would be one goal, and we could >> tell you how to do that, but if it's not what you want, that would be >> a waste of time. >> >> Perhaps you want to pre-populate the user's response to a prompt written >> by the script, for a read command. That's pretty easy: you just have to >> tell read to use readline (-e), and then supply an initial response (-i). >> >> read -r -e -i "$LOGNAME" -p "Who are you? " who >> >> If that's not what you want, then we need to know what you *do* want. >> >
