command prompter

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Terrence Enger wrote:

> To be able to enter parameters in a form integrated with prompts would
> be some benefit, but not much, I think.  Unless I feel different in the
> morning--or somebody else, perchance, feels different--I see no place
> for further effort.

You may also want to look at aliases and functions within bash.  It is 
normal for shell users to create aliases that include various switches for 
their most common commands.  Functions can do everything aliases can do 
and allow for increased complexity.

Cheers,

Rob

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