On 11/9/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to make sure that I save my .config in a safe location. > In bash I supose this is easy: > > echo -n "Save this config as: " > read filename > cp .config $filename > > however, there's no guarantee there that I've inputted a valid path. > Is there a way to do the following while 'read'ing: > > - provide a default value (e.g. /usr/src/configs/latest-config) > - provide bash-style tab completion (so that I can be sure I'm saving > in a valid directory)
"read -e filename" will use the readline library, which understands tab completion. I don't know if it's possible to set a default value. You could always go through some gymnastics: filename=/usr/src/configs/latest-config read -e -p "Save this config as: [$filename] " tmpfname [ "x$tmpfile" = "x" ] || filename=$tmpfile The last line could probably also be [ -z $tmpfile ] || filename=$tmpfile -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
