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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 01-28-2009

read -p "prompt text" foo say "read: bad option(s)" in Bourne-Shell

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"Normal" input (cursor keys, etc.) is usually...

"Normal" input (cursor keys, etc.) is usually handled by the Shell or the readline library. If your version of read doesn't support any of those it receives them as plain control characters as sent...

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 01-28-2009

read -p "prompt text" foo say "read: bad option(s)" in Bourne-Shell

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A (very) simple substitute would be printf...

A (very) simple substitute would be
printf "Prompt: "
read command

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 01-28-2009

read -p "prompt text" foo say "read: bad option(s)" in Bourne-Shell

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What's your OS and shell? The -p (prompt) option...

What's your OS and shell? The -p (prompt) option is available only in bash AFAIK.

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