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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to get multiline input Post 302901671 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 14th of May 2014 11:18:00 PM
Old 05-15-2014
You could try something like

Code:
stty eof \~
echo "Enter comment type \"~\" and ENTER on blank line to end"
cat > /tmp/input.$$
stty eof ^D
line=$(cat /tmp/input.$$)
rm /tmp/input.$$
printf "You entered:\n%s\n" "$line"

Note ^D is entered in vi with CTRL-V then CTRL-D
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term::readline::zoid::emacs

Term::ReadLine::Zoid::Emacs(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Term::ReadLine::Zoid::Emacs(3pm)

NAME

       Term::ReadLine::Zoid::Emacs - a readline emacs mode

SYNOPSIS

       This class is used as a mode under Term::ReadLine::Zoid, see there for usage details.

DESCRIPTION

       This mode provides some emacs key-bindings, taking the bash(1) implementation as a reference.

       This module also provides a 'emac_multiline' key map.

KEY MAPPING

       These bindings are additional to those in Term::ReadLine::Zoid which already contains some emacs key bindings.

       escape, ^[  (prefix_meta)
       meta-f  (forward_word)
       meta-b  (backward_word)
       ^X^V  (switch_mode_command)
	   Enter (vi) command mode. Taken from zsh(1).

       ^V, ^Q  (quoted_insert)
	   Insert next key literally, ignoring any key-bindings.

	   WARNING: control or escape chars in the editline can cause unexpected results

TODO

       Get count args right (see bash reference)

       A lot more bindings

       A emacs multiline mode

AUTHOR

       Jaap Karssenberg (Pardus) <pardus@cpan.org>

       Copyright (c) 2004 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Term::ReadLine::Zoid

perl v5.8.7							    2005-08-07					  Term::ReadLine::Zoid::Emacs(3pm)
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