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10-13-2005

sysera

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Mimic bash history behavior

Does anyone know of a way to mimic the up arrow/down arrow type bash behavior within a shell script?

Say I have a scripted menu, and would like to be able to up arrow to bring up the last X number of lines of user input?

Thanks to anybody with a suggestion.

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