[PLUG] bash command to wait for key press

Marvin J. Kosmal lamsokvr at xprt.net
Sat Nov 22 16:56:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 16:17, David Fleck wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote:
> > How about
> >
> > echo -n "Please insert a CD"
> > read cd
> > echo "Thanks for the CD"
> >
> > read will wait for the input and return key..
> >
> > HTH
> > >
> 
> Or:
> 
>   read -p "Please insert a CD: " cd

I like better then my solution..


 
 
 
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