Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:06:52 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Salihin <odhienx@arwana.untan.ac.id>, Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>, "[FreeBSD-Questions-List] (E-post)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: press any key to continue in sh Message-ID: <19991221180652.A351@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991221024433.891113E@woodstock.monkey.net> References: <19991220231802.A540@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991221024433.891113E@woodstock.monkey.net>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 08:44:33PM -0600, Jon Hamilton wrote:
>
>
> Well, this will be a little lower overhead and is more shell-ish:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echon() {
> if [ -n "`echo -n`" ] ; then
> echo "$@\c"
> else
> echo -n "$@"
> fi
> }
>
> echon "Press any key to continue: "
> TTYSTATE=`stty -g`
> stty raw
> dd if=/dev/tty of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 > /dev/null 2>&1
> stty "$TTYSTATE"
> echo
>
I wasn't the original poster, but, thanks for the info. I knew that to
make the ubiquitous (or should that be infamous?)"any" key work
without having to also press RETURN required flipping the tty into raw
mode but couldn't figure out how to do it.
> It's only good for interactive use, which may be ok given its nature :)
>
> --
> Jon Hamilton
> hamilton@pobox.com
>
>
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