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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting quit any time Post 302168007 by Qwond on Saturday 16th of February 2008 12:13:50 PM
Old 02-16-2008
quit any time

how can i read input to quit any time, for instance "type q to quit"

I have a script like this

echo "The first choice"
read firstChoice
echo "The second choice"
read secondChoice

Looking for a code to quit any time by pressing q to quit

any help would be appreciated

thanks
 

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roar_exit(3)						System Manager's Manual: RoarAudio					      roar_exit(3)

NAME
roar_exit - let RoarAudio's sound server quit roar_terminate - let RoarAudio's sound server quit as soon as all clients quit SYNOPSIS
#include <roaraudio.h> int roar_exit(struct roar_connection * con); int roar_terminate(struct roar_connection * con, int terminate); DESCRIPTION
Ask the sound server to quit. roar_exit() let the server quit without waiting for any clients. All streams and client connections will be closed cleanly. roar_terminate() will let the server quit as soon as all clients disconnects and all input streams ended. The listening socket will be closed. This is useful in case of restarting roard. PARAMETERS
con An open controll connection to the server. terminate Wait for all clients to disconnect and all streams to EOF in case of 1. In case of 0 roar_terminate() is equal to roar_exit(). RETURN VALUE
On success these calls return 0. On error, -1 is returned. NOTES
Even when the call was successfull you have to use roar_disconnect(3) to disconnect from the server. EXAMPLES
FIXME SEE ALSO
roar_disconnect(3), libroar(7), RoarAudio(7). RoarAudio May 2011 roar_exit(3)
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