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# 1  
Old 03-31-2003
Read line with a single key press...
I would really like to have a script that will accept the key press from the user with out having to press the enter key afterwards.

i.e.
echo "Press Y to print \c"
read YesNo

At this point the user has to press the enter key to continue. Is there a way to accept the key press from the user, with out the enter key needing to be pressed afterwards?





Smilie
# 2  
Old 03-31-2003
See this thread.
# 3  
Old 04-01-2003
If you want it in perl with a GUI interface!

Quote:


use Tk;

#make a main window
$mainwindow = MainWindow -> new();


$mainwindow->Button(-text => 'Press Y to print',
-command => sub{command_button()}
)->pack;

MainLoop;

sub command_button {

#put yor command script here!

};
# 4  
Old 04-04-2003
If you're running non-interactively, ksh and bash can read one character at a time using read:
Code:
$ cat tmp.sh
#! /bin/ksh
while read -n1 char; do
print $char
done

$ echo test | ./tmp.sh
t
e
s
t

$

I can't get it to work interactively, though. I know it's not really what you're looking for in this case, but it might be of use in the future...
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