Re: Do a readline function execution inside bash

[Budi]

simply run a readline function among lines codes of bash script such a
menu-complete, or previous-history repeated thrice, or etc

On 9/15/20, Budi <budikusasi@gmail.com> wrote:
> simply run a readline function among lines codes of bash script such a
> menu-complete, or menu-complete repeated thrice, or etc etc
>
> On 9/14/20, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:09:16PM +0700, Budi wrote:
>>> How to do a readline function execution inside bash script as mimic to
>>> actual key press ?
>>
>> Please tell us what you're actually trying to do.  It makes a huge
>> difference.
>>
>> You said "script", so I guess you don't want to pre-populate the input
>> buffer of an interactive shell.  That would be one goal, and we could
>> tell you how to do that, but if it's not what you want, that would be
>> a waste of time.
>>
>> Perhaps you want to pre-populate the user's response to a prompt written
>> by the script, for a read command.  That's pretty easy: you just have to
>> tell read to use readline (-e), and then supply an initial response (-i).
>>
>> read -r -e -i "$LOGNAME" -p "Who are you? " who
>>
>> If that's not what you want, then we need to know what you *do* want.
>>
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