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Time monitored Input prompts in script.
Name: abby Date: July 16, 2002 at 17:08:31 Pacific
Comment:
Hi all, I'm trying to write an interactive script wherein user has to input some paramaeters. I am using "read" for that. I was wondering if I can use time defined read which would let the script exit after 45 seconds of no user input !! Any suggestions on how to accomplish this ? Thanks.
Name: PaulS Date: July 19, 2002 at 07:06:54 Pacific
Reply:
Why not just build a while loop and add sleep 15 in it, prompting the user for input every 15 seconds. If you get input, jump out of the loop and continue; if not just exit.
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