Pre-filling a prompt in Bash

Question

Writing a bash script, and I want to get user input. Awesome,

read -p \"What directory should we save in? \" -e FOLDER

Except that what I\'

Answer 1

$ read -p "What directory should we save in? " -i "/home/user/default/" -e FOLDER
What directory should we save in? /home/user/default/

that should work, right?

Answer 2

You can wrap the command in rlwrap, which provides instant readline capabilities: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/#rlwrap

(rlwrap -P does what you want)

As far as a pure bash solution is concerned for the 3.2 line (which i am presuming you are using), I dont think its possible