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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting read -p "prompt text" foo say "read: bad option(s)" in Bourne-Shell Post 302281064 by wiseguy on Wednesday 28th of January 2009 06:12:21 AM
Old 01-28-2009
I have an other Problem with this read command:
(Even thats not a problem with read, I ask anyway in this thread)

When i make inputs (bechaue of a read command) I cant use curser direction (left oder right), or I want to make a backspace, I get some signes like this:
Backspace => ^?
left => ^[[D
right => ^[[C
Delete => ^[[3~
Pos1 => ^[[1~
End => ^[[4~

Can anybody tell me what I have to do in the script before the read command, that the user can use this keys, two?
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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OPTIONS

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