On Sunday 20 Sep 2009, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > > echo -n "Hit space to continue: " > > read __dummy > > it could be something like this > #!/bin/bash > ... > ... > echo -n "Hit space to continue" > read -n 1 dummy > > Which will cause bash to return after exactly one char is entered
That makes sense, in which case, if you have something like: read num read -n 1 dummy read yn you can run the script as: ... <<EOF 100 dy EOF so num gets the value "100", dummy gets the value "d" and yn gets the value "y". Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
