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shellscript help
Name: J Date: September 25, 2003 at 13:27:59 Pacific OS: Unix CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
How can I write a shellscript to accept a character from the terminal as soon as it is typed (don't wait for user to hit return)?
Name: Nails Date: September 25, 2003 at 13:48:49 Pacific
Reply:
There's really no way of doing it without changing the unix terminal driver which this function does:
#!/bin/ksh
readkey() { oldstty=`stty -g` stty -icanon -echo min 1 time 0 dd bs=1 count=1 <&0 2>/dev/null # the line above reads after count=1: # less than sign, ampersand, space, # the number 2, greater than sign, # /dev/null stty $oldstty }
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