1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want my program(ksh) to execute further only if the return key is pressed. Please help. i have already tried "\n", "\r", "^M" . Thanks in advance (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi folks, i am using sun solaris, when i press escape key in putty/netterm screen will blink for a second, plese let me know where this setting is done by my admin, what i feel is my admin must have set some control key for this so that screen will refresh each time i press escape key. please let... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello friends, I want to write a shell script in bash shell . Working for the script is to detect any key pressed and disply on screen as "you have pressed: " For example if user pressed F5 then a messaged has to be displayed as "you have pressed F5. Thank you. (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi Gurus, please why is this happening: when i run this: #!/bin/bash declare -a name declare -a ph declare -a eid r=0; c=1; i=1; n=; echo " name phone email_id" while : do #if ; then #break; #else echo -n "field $i:"; read name ph eid; let "i++"; ... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone. I'm trying to create a script that waits a given amount of time unless a given key is pressed. I found a very useful thread here https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/59605-trap-key-press-script.html however, I cannot figure out a way of avoiding the keypress if the... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I have a script in which I want to disable the "Enter" key press. Actually my script executes some process in background. So, till that background process is running, I don't want "Enter" key to be pressed by user. Is this can be achieved using trap command? (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I need to know how to test a pressed key is arrowup or arrowdown and etc.. I found that the "echo" won't print anything if i enter the arrowup in the below code: read echo "you pressed $REPLY" Then i find a way to achieve my goal. 1 #! /bin/bash 2 3 ARROWUP='\;then... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do i get rid of the ^C when i pressed Ctrl-C? (7 Replies)

9. Ubuntu

So I mounted a 12.04 LTS ISO, exported it via apache. Goy my netinstall files in place. Pointed Foreman to my install media the Preseed config files run. Life is good. Server comes up, I run apt-get update and blam: : Failed to fetch... (0 Replies)