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shea martin

2005-02-12, 5:49 pm

bash had a -p option for read which allowed prompt to be specified. zsh does not
seem to have this.

I can't seem to find the manpage dealing with the builtin read. In bash 'help
read' would print out what I want, but I in zsh 'help read' gives "key 'read'
not found".

Pointers?

TIA,

!S
Ed Morton

2005-02-12, 5:49 pm



shea martin wrote:

> bash had a -p option for read which allowed prompt to be specified. zsh
> does not seem to have this.
>
> I can't seem to find the manpage dealing with the builtin read. In bash
> 'help read' would print out what I want, but I in zsh 'help read' gives
> "key 'read' not found".
>
> Pointers?


Did you try "man zsh"? There's a copy of the man page at
http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/zsh.1.html if you're missing yours.

Ed.
shea martin

2005-02-12, 5:49 pm

Ed Morton wrote:
>
>
> shea martin wrote:
>
>
>
> Did you try "man zsh"? There's a copy of the man page at
> http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/man/zsh.1.html if you're missing yours.
>
> Ed.



I just found the answer 'vared -c -p 'prompt qeustion'.

Funny, 'man zsh | grep vared'. I must have a bad version of zsh.

Thanks,

~S
Geoff Wing

2005-02-13, 2:47 am

shea martin <smartin@arcis.com> typed:
: I just found the answer 'vared -c -p 'prompt qeustion'.
: Funny, 'man zsh | grep vared'. I must have a bad version of zsh.

% man zshall | grep vared

By default the man page is split into several files. zshall pulls in each
section/file.

Regards,
Geoff
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