On 2006-08-28, Salve Håkedal wrote:
> Prompting for input from a script with:
>
> echo "What do you think?"
> read
>
> I start typing, but want to correct, by useing left
> arrow I get:
>
> I hardly thi^[[D
>
> How is that done better?

By using a shell that has an option to allow line editing when
entering text with read.

For example, in bash:

read -ep "Your name: " name

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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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