Re: BASH scripts.

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From: Steve Merrifield
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00

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Andrew Matherl (amsm@deakin.edu.au) wrote:
: G'day Again,

<snip>
: This may be a foolish question, but is there a command similar to the
: DOS "pause" that will halt execution of the script and then start it
: again when the enter(or any other) key is pressed ?

Try these...

#!/bin/sh
echo "Press ENTER to continue"
read 

or

#!/bin/sh
echo "Enter a string..."
read junk;
echo 'You typed'
echo $junk;


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From: sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Steve Merrifield)
Subject: Re: BASH scripts.
Date: 1996/11/25
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