IO::Prompt -- Interactive validating terminal prompt This is a generic module for interactive prompting from the console. You can install it with proto: $ cd ~/devel $ git clone git://github.com/masak/proto.git $ cd proto $ ./proto $ ./proto install io-prompt $ cd ../io-prompt # I assume you have perl6 (rakudo) in your path $ PERL6LIB=../proto/lib perl6 Configure.p6 $ make test $ PERL6LIB=lib perl6 example.p6 $ perldoc lib/IO/Prompt See also example.p6 and lib/IO/Prompt.pm