man rlwrap Command

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Man Page for rlwrap in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man rlwrap in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man rlwrap

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

rlwrap(1)                                                            rlwrap(1)



NAME
       rlwrap   readline wrapper

SYNOPSIS
       rlwrap [rlwrap options] command ...

DESCRIPTION
       rlwrap  runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to
       provide readline's line editing,  persistent  history  and  completion.
       rlwrap  tries  to be completely transparent   you should not notice any
       difference between command and rlwrap command   except the added  read 
       line functionality, of course.  This should even hold true when you are
       re directing or piping from and to command.  There are many options  to
       add  (programmable) completion, handle multi line input, colour and re 
       write prompts. If you don't need them (and you probably don't), you can
       skip the rest of this manpage.

OPTIONS
        a,   always readline []
              Always remain in "readline mode", regardless of command's termi 
              nal settings.  Use this option if you want to  use  rlwrap  with
              commands  that  already  use  readline. On a linux system you'll
              probably want to add the   N  option.   NB:  With  this  option,
              rlwrap will echo (and save) passwords, unless you give command's
              password prompt as an argument.  The argument  is  optional;  if
              given,  it  has to directly follow the option  without an inter 
              vening space.

        A,   ansi colour aware
              Prompts that use colour will confuse rlwrap, especially  at  the
              end  of  long  input  lines. This option will make rlwrap better
              behaved in such cases.  If the prompt contains anything  fancier
              than  ANSI  colour  codes,  this option may actually make things
              worse.

        b,   break chars 
              Consider the specified characters word breaking  (whitespace  is
              always  word breaking).  This  determines  what  is considered a
              "word", both when completing and when building a completion word
              list  from  files specified by  f options following (not preced 
              ing!) it.  Default list (){}[],+ =&^%$

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