On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 12:30:33 +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > | and "read -p" for the prompt. > > which could be just a printf without a trailing \n before the > read -- but doesn't need to be as read -p is in the standard.
Oh, that must be another 2024 change. The manpages-posix package I've got on Debian is older (version "2017a-2"), and doesn't have read -p. If something was *just* added to POSIX less than a year ago, it's not a safe bet that all implementations will have it already. If portability is the goal, I'd still go with printf + read for a while.
