PROMPT(1)

🎀 PROMPT(1) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the PROMPT manual page — section 1 of the manual, one little command, and it's about to change your whole terminal life 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

prompt — give any program command-line editing facilities 🫶

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

prompt

like. that's it. that's the whole call. iconic. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so prompt is a simple wrapper, right? and its entire personality is: it provides command-line editing for programs that do not have it. that's the mission. that's the assignment. and it ate. 🔥

ngl, not every program with a command line interface provides an input history, or even the ability to use the cursor keys to change the input 😭 which is so tragic when you're sitting there retyping the same thing like a peasant. not on our watch.

so the prompt program wraps any program, intercepting stdin, stdout and stderr, and providing you, the user, with such editing facilities. it just steps in, takes the wheel, and gives you the glow-up you deserve 👑 periodt.

so real: it's wrapping any program and grabbing stdin, stdout and stderr — all three, no crumbs left behind 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• modglue(1)
• ptypwrap(1)

wait no, let me re-read that — it's ptywrap(1). okay. both of them, go look 👀

also! there's a whole web page at http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/modglue/ if you want more information, because sometimes the man page just isn't enough and you need the full lore 🧚

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Kasper Peeters <kasper.peeters@aei.mpg.de> 💜

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and that's the page, bestie 🍓 this one's from the PROMPT(1) manual, dated Jul 12, 2008 — so yeah, it's been serving looks for a minute and it still hits. go edit some command lines. slay 🌈⭐🎀