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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find entering ENTER key?. Post 302229806 by tsaravanan on Thursday 28th of August 2008 03:49:30 AM
Old 08-28-2008
How to find entering ENTER key?.

Hello All,

i have a script to get input from the user like bellow,

read -p "Do you want to continue (y/n) : " status

i want to identify the pressing of Enter Key with out giving any value for the above statement and i want get the status if we press Enter key during run time.

How to do this?.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers!
Saravana Smilie
 

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TZSELECT(1)                                                Debian Timezone Configuration                                               TZSELECT(1)

NAME
tzselect - view timezones SYNOPSIS
tzselect DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains how you can use the tzselect utility to view the installed timezone. It comes handy when you want to know what time it is in other countries, or if you just wonder what timezones exist. tzselect is called without any parameters from the shell. It shows a list of about one dozen geographic areas one can roughly recognize as continents. After choosing a geographic area by number, a list of countries and cities in this area will be shown. You can press the Enter key to reprint the list. To choose a timezone, just press the number left to it. If your input is invalid, the list will be reprinted. You may press Ctrl-C to interrupt the script at any time. Note that tzselect will not actually change the timezone for you. Use 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' to achieve this. FILES
/usr/share/zoneinfo/ SEE ALSO
hwclock(8) AUTHOR
Copyright 1998 Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org> Please see nroff source for legal notice. Debian 12 June 1998 TZSELECT(1)
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