On 2/8/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)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.