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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Mimic bash history behavior Post 86385 by sysera on Thursday 13th of October 2005 04:48:01 PM
Old 10-13-2005
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. Smilie
 

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Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow(3pm)

NAME
Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow -- The "extending arrow" glyph SYNOPSIS
This is deprecated. Use Bio::Graphics::Glyph::anchored_arrow instead. DESCRIPTION
This glyph was designed to show a segment that goes beyond the panel. If the segment is contained within the panel, a vertical base is shown. Otherwise, an arrow is shown. Also see the arrow glyph. OPTIONS See Bio::Graphics::Glyph::anchored_arrow. This glyph has been deprecated. BUGS
Please report them. SEE ALSO
Bio::Graphics::Panel, Bio::Graphics::Glyph, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::arrow, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::cds, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::crossbox, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::diamond, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::dna, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::dot, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::ellipse, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::generic, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::graded_segments, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::heterogeneous_segments, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::line, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::pinsertion, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::primers, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::rndrect, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::segments, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::ruler_arrow, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::toomany, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript2, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::translation, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::triangle, Bio::DB::GFF, Bio::SeqI, Bio::SeqFeatureI, Bio::Das, GD AUTHOR
Originally by Shengqiang Shu. Temporarily deprecated by Lincoln Stein. Copyright (c) 2001 Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty. perl v5.14.2 2012-02-20 Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow(3pm)
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