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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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