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Old 05-17-2009
Trigger Enter
Hello,
I need to trigger every time enter has been clicked while some one on terminal
i tried to googleit but with out result any idea ??
thanks in advance
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Old 05-17-2009
search the forums for canonical mode or ncurses getkey.
# 3  
Old 05-17-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by AYAK
I need to trigger every time enter has been clicked while some one on terminal

In what context?

Does this do what you want:

Code:
while :
do
  read
  echo "Roy Rogers' horse"
done

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Old 05-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
search the forums for canonical mode or ncurses getkey.
thx i will give it try
i need to use it for logging purpose
each time enter clicked to trigger some thing like in ls <Enter> to do something
cfajohnson
thx i tried this before it did not work at all
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