Shell Programming and Scripting

Pls this is emergency.I have written a script which is taking input from another script. and the contents of my second script are acting as functions to my main script.Now the problem is that in one of the functions i want the script ececution to stop and start when user enters any character r pres any key. But my compiler is not getting stopped evn though it encountered read in the function.
pls help.

It is very hard to imagine what you might mean if you do not provide script and/or input/output examples.

Sorry your question is not clear, am giving it a try.

Do you have a block something like this,

Code:

while read line
do
  # processing
done < readfile

and in the above block trying to read input from the user something like

Code:

while read line
do
  # processing
  read input_from_user
done < readfile

then it won't work as expected, need to read it from the right stream

Code:

while read line
do
  # processing
  read input_from_user < /dev/tty
done < readfile