> Is there a common, standard way to wait for the press of any single key > in a batch job?
Tricky. Old-style (serial) terminals were outright unable to send anything less than a line of input to the computer. What do you call a "batch" job? Usually that means a background job which gets run when there's time, and by definition implies it's not interactive, ergo, no wait for keypress possible. If you mean to say shell script, investigate the stty program and temporarily put the terminal into raw mode and so on, perhaps it'll work. Of course, waiting for pressing <enter> is trivial - that's called "read" in bash. You could also fire up something like kdialog --msgbox "Press any key to continue" or write your own short program in C. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
