Press to Continue

incomingid · 04-01-2009, 05:49 PM

I'm making a script were the user has to enter one of the options: 1, 2, 3 or 4.
After he enters one of the options the script will do something for each(like a menu.

After the output of the chosen option is showed I want the user to be prompted to "Press any key to Continue", So the loop can go back to the menu.

menu:
EX.
1. add
2. subtract
3. divide
4. exit

Enter: 1

You chose "add"
Press any key to Continue

incomingid · 04-01-2009, 08:52 PM

Can anyone pls help.

AlucardZero · 04-01-2009, 09:03 PM

So what's the problem and what do you have already?

incomingid · 04-01-2009, 09:58 PM

I have my full script except the part were i want the user to press a key to continue. I'm looking for a command like "sleep", but the command should end when the user enters any key.
It's just a basic "Press a key to continue"

Hobbletoe · 04-02-2009, 07:18 AM

Try this (assuming bash) ...

Code:

read -sn 1 junk

The '-sn 1' tells it to read just one character (the n), and to not echo the character (the s). junk is the name of the variable, and since you want it just to add a pause to your script, it is a junk variable. Something that can be thrown away because you don't really care what the user inputs.