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
- 18 May 2014 14:11
Release Notes: A bug that caused an I/O error after a keyboard interrupt (Ctrl-C) was fixed. An option has been added to use polling to keep rlwrap's idea of the slave terminal up-to-date.
- 08 May 2014 16:19
Release Notes: Lots of small bugs (most of them platform-specific) were fixed. Users can now specify filename extensions for temporary files when editing multi-line input.
- 05 May 2010 10:49
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.
- 17 Jan 2010 20:31
Release Notes: A few minor bugs (like double echo when accepting a line from vi command mode) have been fixed
- 08 Jan 2010 14:56
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.
Recent comments
RPM files for Redhat, Centos and Unbreakable Linux
I built RPMS for RHEL4/Centos4/blah blah.
http://halisway.blogspot.com/2006/10/rlwrap-for-rhel-centos-unbreakable.html
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 16:59
