Re: *NIX shell scripting question (or possibly other scripting methods)
By: Khelair to Deuce on Mon Nov 12 2012 11:06 am
> After a little bit of research somebody on a DOC BBS that I'm a member
> of ended up mentioning that bash's 'read -t' function might be able to do
> what I'm looking for; it dies and returns failure after the specified
> number of seconds if there has been no keyboard input. I was hoping to be
> able to stick with the native 'sh' or 'ksh' shells, but if I have to call
> bash for a small segment of the shell script it might still not be such a
> bad alternative.
read is a shell builtin for every Bourne style shell I've seen. It's external
t
o csh and tcsh I think though.
If not, the systen should have a read command too in /usr/bin.
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