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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to exit a while true loop Post 302133837 by Noob e on Sunday 26th of August 2007 02:44:30 PM
Old 08-26-2007
Thanks guy for the advice i ended up using.....

answer="No";read -p "Do you want to exit? Answer y to exit. " -t 30 answer;echo " Your answer is $answer";
if [ "$answer" = "y" ];then
echo "you have chosen to exit."
break
else
echo ""


giving them a 30 second window to exit the script or the while true just continues.. works a treat.
 

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