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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Prompting user twice on the same line Post 302931350 by ongoto on Monday 12th of January 2015 03:41:56 PM
Old 01-12-2015
This is a bit of a mess, but it works here. Might need some tweaking.
Code:
printf "Enter the two digits of your sum: "
## get cursor position
echo -en "\E[6n"
read -sdR posn
posn=${posn#*[}
col=${posn#*;}    # extract column
read NUM1
tput cuu1         # move up, then right
tput cuf $(( $col + 1 ))
printf "+ "
read NUM2
echo "$NUM1 + $NUM2"

Last edited by ongoto; 01-12-2015 at 04:58 PM.. Reason: extraneous ;
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ttytype

TTYTYPE(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							TTYTYPE(5)

NAME

       ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping

DESCRIPTION

       The  /etc/ttytype  file	associates termcap(5)/terminfo(5) terminal type names with tty lines.  Each line consists of a terminal type, fol-
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