readline

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: Library Commands (3)
Updated: 10 November 2020
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NAME

readline - read a long line from stdin

 

SYNOPSIS

edrc/lib/readline

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

 

DESCRIPTION

read long input lines from stdin and return the input to stdout.

The maximum length of the input is 10240 characters (10 kBytes), input longer then this maximum is ignored and truncated.

 

OPTIONS

-

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
always.

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

edrcintro(1), input(3), read(2), readline(2)

 

NOTES

readline is used internally by the input(3), command on Solaris and Linux.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

readline was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 by Christian Walther

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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