Bash script user input and revision technique requested
In a bash script, I have a need to present the contents of a variable to the user, so that he can "revise" the value if needed, or just hit enter if no revision is required. The objective is to reduce keyboard effort to just revising a presented value.
The "hit enter to continue" part is easy.
The "revise" part is the problem for me.
To illustrate using an example:
#! /bin/bash
position_var=30.39
echo -n "Revise Position if required:${position_var}"
#then some kind of read position_var ??
How can I make the position_var available to the user to edit and resubmit?
Thanks
steve.
Last edited by stevepa (2012-02-28 17:31:56)
The above solution is good okay for a general shell script, bash has a feature for what you want though. (see below)
If however the content of the variable is bigger (multiple lines, or a really LONG line you don't want to have to retype), you have 2 options:
Write it to a temp file and fire up $EDITOR (if that's not set, you can default to nano or vi, whichever you can find with $(which ...)).
The other idea that comes to mind is using 'expect' to present a prefilled prompt the user can edit... I'll have to test this...
EDIT: Can't think of an easy way to do that with expect... mhh...
EDIT2: Specifically for bash:
read -p "Revise Position if required: " -i "$current" -e new
with the -e flag, $current will be what the line is prefilled with, and $new will contain the result.
Last edited by Blµb (2012-02-28 18:14:55)
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