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Re: Pause for keystroke
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Knott)
Thu Dec 3 02:14:18 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 02:12:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Don Knott <dknott@treco.net>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Ramon Gandia wrote:
> I am writing a shell (sh) script, and I want it to pause
> for a keystroke to resume. Something like this snippet
> of pseudo-code:
>
> #
> echo "insert floppy disk now"
> echo "press any key when ready"
> pause for keystroke
> mount /mnt/floppy
> #
>
> How does something like this get put into a script
echo "Press enter to continue"
read keypress
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