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Re: what does 'interactive' mean?



On 2021-08-10 9:34 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote:

Very very very very very roughly, "interactive" in this sense means it's
showing you prompts and bringing up a line editor to edit the command line.

Well that's the thing.  Thomas can be forgiven for being a bit unclear about what it all means.  The docs basically assume you already know.  But that's very roughly how I understand it -- no prompts if not interactive.
Being "non-interactive" doesn't mean you can't interact with the shell.
There's still probably a standard input and output.
Just when I thought I understood it :-(  So 'non-interactive' might be interactive after all?  It would take some writing skill to really elucidate this.






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