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kcmerrill / alfred

(v0.2) Even Batman needs a little help. Task runner. Automator. Build system.
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Input prompt #49

Closed iilyak closed 6 years ago

iilyak commented 6 years ago

I was looking for a way to enter strings interactively and pass the entered value to another task. Unfortunately I couldn't find a cross platform (linux/mac/win32) cli tool which would read something from keyboard (password) and echo it to stdout so I can register it in a variable. The closest thing I found is https://github.com/quininer/ttyaskpass. However sometimes the input is not the pass so it wouldn't really work. What would be your suggestion?

kcmerrill commented 6 years ago

hmmm, to be honest, I don't think alfred is crossplatform(I haven't tested so I don't know to be honest).

This is a feature I am planning on adding to v0.1, but for the meantime in light of the fact I don't think alfred runs on windows(try it out! if it does let me know I'm curious) I'd recommend this for your command (readline 2> /dev/null) || read

kcmerrill commented 6 years ago

Leaving this open and will close when the feature is released.

iilyak commented 6 years ago

thank you for implementing the first version of prompt