pause needed for corn shell

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1

I need a user pause for a script file, like the pause command in dos. please help I thought it was the corn shell it is csh.

2

It called the korn shell. How about this...

#! /usr/bin/ksh

function pause
{
typeset savesetting result
print -n "Hit any key to continue..."
savesetting=$(stty -g)
stty -icanon min 1 time 0
result=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null)
stty "$savesetting"
echo
}



echo one
pause
echo two
exit 0
3

The following is one way of doing it

read prompt?'Press any key to continue .....'
4

you can 'sleep' for specified amount of time as well,
"man sleep" for details.

5

@perderabo

can u explain little bit of the pause function u have written.

6

It displays:
Hit any key to continue...
then it waits until the user types a key. I looked up the pause command and the docs said that this is what it does. And I just noticed that the OP has edited his first post and now says this is csh. Well sorry, but I'm not a csh guy.

7

Try this

#!/bin/csh
/bin/echo "Press any key to continue .....\c"
set dummy = $<
8

I am new to this and was wondering if you could also explain what the code means so I can understand and not just use it.