Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:19:36 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net> Cc: "[FreeBSD-Questions-List] (E-post)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: press any key to continue in sh Message-ID: <19991220201936.B1558@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <01BF4B21.FD8A5A90.dl@tyfon.net> References: <01BF4B21.FD8A5A90.dl@tyfon.net>
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Dan Larsson wrote:
> How do I best produce a 'press any key to continue' prompt in sh?
Try this:
echo "Press any key to continue..."
perl -e 'system("stty", "cbreak"); getc(STDIN); system("stty", "-cbreak");'
that will work in FreeBSD, but I don't know about other OSes which might
behave differently. It would probably be safer to do a simple "press enter
to continue" prompt:
echo "Press enter to continue..."
read junk
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