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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:05:12 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: press any key to continue in sh
Message-ID:  <199912210905.KAA09867@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Dan Larsson wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > How do I best produce a 'press any key to continue' prompt in sh?

echo -n "Press any key to continue... "
stty cbreak
dd of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null
stty -cbreak
echo

Regards
   Oliver

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