02-07-2009
Pressing Enter (bash)
Hey, I'm writing this BASH script, I recently started learning BASH after I did Java and I'm pretty new to the syntax.
Anways, what I want to do is simple, I coudn't find the right information though:
Let's say I make a :
read -p "Press ENTER to go back to menu" choice
.....
What is the command that would let me perform this? I need to way for the User to press ENTER, not a silly Y/N. (It's for general accomplishment actually haha).
-Yakuzan
P.S : Example much appreciated!
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
getitems
getitems(1F) FMLI Commands getitems(1F)
NAME
getitems - returns a list of currently marked menu items
SYNOPSIS
getitems [delimiter_string]
DESCRIPTION
The getitems function returns the value of lininfo if defined, else it returns the value of the name descriptor, for all currently marked
menu items. Each value in the list is delimited by delimiter_string. The default value of delimiter_string is newline.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample output of getitems command.
The done descriptor in the following menu definition file executes getitems when the user presses ENTER (note that the menu is multise-
lect):
Menu="Example"
multiselect=TRUE
done=`getitems ":" | message`
name="Item 1"
action=`message "You selected item 1"`
name="Item 2"
lininfo="This is item 2"
action=`message "You selected item 2"`
name="Item 3"
action=`message "You selected item 3"`
If a user marked all three items in this menu, pressing ENTER would cause the following string to be displayed on the message line:
Item 1:This is item 2:Item 3
NOTES
Because lininfo is defined for the second menu item, its value is displayed instead of the value of the name descriptor.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 getitems(1F)