rlwrap
rlwrap is a readline wrapper, a small utility that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. It maintains a separate input history for each command, and can TAB-expand words using all previously seen words and/or a user-specified file.
| Tags | Terminals |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 05 May 2010 12:56
Release Notes: A compilation problem with gcc on armel has been fixed. Programs that emit status lines with lots of carriage returns (like darcs) will no longer confuse rlwrap.
- 18 Jan 2010 00:58
Release Notes: A few minor bugs (like double echo when accepting a line from vi command mode) have been fixed
- 08 Jan 2010 19:14
Release Notes: This release adds many small improvements and fixes for filtering and multi-line input. Cooking (i.e., coloring or re-writing) prompts can be avoided by "rejecting" them, from a filter, or when they don't match a given regexp. There now is a --one-shot option for easier use within shell scripts.
- 20 Dec 2009 00:11
Release Notes: This release fixes problems with keybindings for wide (e.g. UTF-8) characters and the handling of prefix arguments.
- 26 Nov 2009 09:28
Release Notes: This release fixes a screen corruption problem on Debian (and probably a few other) systems.
Recent comments
RPM files for Redhat, Centos and Unbreakable Linux
I built RPMS for RHEL4/Centos4/blah blah.
An excellent tool
I do a lot of work in a console environment, and rlwrap is a very handy tool in many areas. It's well worth having for any systems administrator or serious programmer.
Works well
Just a note to say that rlwrap saved the day for me here at work. I use it to wrap a console based admin tool that has no command line editing or history.
Keep up the good work!
hlub
28 Dec 1999 17:46
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 340.74
- Vitality Score
- 11.10
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