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From Chad Wagner
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In response to Re: \prompt for psql  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On 2/8/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
You can do this already approximately so:

\echo -n 'Enter value: '
\set x `read && echo $REPLY`

Maybe one command is better, though.

Yep, in fact that is more or less something similar that I suggested on pgsql-sql yesterday.  The only issue I had with it was it doesn't work for Windows and non-UNIX platforms.

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