READCONS(1)

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💖 readcons — General Commands Manual, but make it group chat 💖

okay bestie, this is the readcons page and it's literally just a lil console prompt situation. Very demure, very "please type something." Let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

readcons — prompt console for input 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

readcons [ -d default ] [ -s ] prompt

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

readcons prompts at the console for input and copies the typed string to standard output. That's the whole main-character job, no cap.

The flags and the positional arg, all cute and accounted for:

  • -d default — if the user types an empty string (just a newline) and the -d option is given, then default is printed instead of an empty string. lowkey a safety net 💅
  • -s — if this flag is given, the input is not displayed (secret). very spy-movie, very "don't look at my password" 🙈
  • prompt — the positional prompt argument shown in the synopsis, because yes, it needs a prompt 🎀

📁 SOURCE 📁

/src/cmd/readcons.c

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

readcons(3)

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