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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting read -p "prompt text" foo say "read: bad option(s)" in Bourne-Shell Post 302281042 by pludi on Wednesday 28th of January 2009 05:11:35 AM
Old 01-28-2009
A (very) simple substitute would be
Code:
printf "Prompt: "
read command

 

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App::Info::Handler::Prompt(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   App::Info::Handler::Prompt(3pm)

NAME
App::Info::Handler::Prompt - Prompting App::Info event handler SYNOPSIS
use App::Info::Category::FooApp; use App::Info::Handler::Print; my $prompter = App::Info::Handler::Print->new; my $app = App::Info::Category::FooApp->new( on_unknown => $prompter ); # Or... my $app = App::Info::Category::FooApp->new( on_confirm => 'prompt' ); DESCRIPTION
App::Info::Handler::Prompt objects handle App::Info events by printing their messages to "STDOUT" and then accepting a new value from "STDIN". The new value is validated by any callback supplied by the App::Info concrete subclass that triggered the event. If the value is valid, App::Info::Handler::Prompt assigns the new value to the event request. If it isn't it prints the error message associated with the event request, and then prompts for the data again. Although designed with unknown and confirm events in mind, App::Info::Handler::Prompt handles info and error events as well. It will simply print info event messages to "STDOUT" and print error event messages to "STDERR". For more interesting info and error event handling, see App::Info::Handler::Print and App::Info::Handler::Carp. Upon loading, App::Info::Handler::Print registers itself with App::Info::Handler, setting up a single string, "prompt", that can be passed to an App::Info concrete subclass constructor. This string is a shortcut that tells App::Info how to create an App::Info::Handler::Print object for handling events. INTERFACE
Constructor new my $prompter = App::Info::Handler::Prompt->new; Constructs a new App::Info::Handler::Prompt object and returns it. No special arguments are required. BUGS
Please send bug reports to <bug-app-info@rt.cpan.org> or file them at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=App-Info>. AUTHOR
David Wheeler <david@justatheory.com> SEE ALSO
App::Info documents the event handling interface. App::Info::Handler::Carp handles events by passing their messages Carp module functions. App::Info::Handler::Print handles events by printing their messages to a file handle. App::Info::Handler describes how to implement custom App::Info event handlers. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2002-2008, David Wheeler. Some Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-03-15 App::Info::Handler::Prompt(3pm)
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