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Suppose we have two scripts: one that prompts for the input and one that acts as a wrapper for the first one: prompt: #!/bin/sh printf "Enter: " 1>&2 read input echo "You entered: ${input}" wrapper: #!/bin/sh ./prompt Now imagine that we want to implement the behaviour for the wrapper that...

Hello, Is it possible to display a variable on STDOUT and keep the hand in order to use/edit it ? I've tried to remove the carriage return or newline with tr , or changing IFS but that didn't work. So after few hours on this I just wonder if it is possible, if yes what command/tool can do...