Keyboard reading from ksh

[Leo The Cat]

Hi

How to accept only the ENTER key in a ksh compatible script to provide something like that:
"Please do action ... and press ENTER"

any idea ?

Bests Regards
Den

[Huc_1]

Please tell us more on what you are trying to do...like where is your script failing?

enjoy, life.

Jean-Pierre Huc

[Steven E. Protter]

Shsalom,


Here is an example. Change the script and it will still work.

#!/bin/bash

filename="/home/paul/myfile.tar.gz"
hostname="ftp.myhost.com"
username="username"
password="password"
ftp -un $hostname <quote USER $username
quote PASS $password

binary
put $filename
quit
EOF

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

I'm not sure of what are you trying to do, but normally I use:

echo "Press ENTER to continue"
read
echo "Operation complete"
exit 0

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Den:

If you want to distinguish the action of pressing the ENTER key alone, you could do:

# echo "press ENTER \c";read LINE;[ -z "${LINE}" ] && echo OK || echo "Please just press ENTER"

Regards!

...JRF...

[Leo The Cat]

Hi Guys

In fact, is there another keyboard function. (named readchar by example) I'd like to have only one striked key on input.

ENTER key was not the good example because source of confusion on my question. sorry.

Suppose you have choice between [Y]es or [N]o during execution script. If the user press Y or N it's enough to continue and ENTER is not necessary.

Is it possible ?

Thanks Guys and sorry again about the confusion.

Bests Regards
Den

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi (again) Den:

Try this:

# cat ./readchar
#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "Enter character: \c"
stty raw
readchar=$(dd if=/dev/tty bs=1 count=1 2 > /dev/null)
stty -raw
echo "\nYou pressed the '${readchar}' key"
exit 0

Regards!

...JRF...

[Laurent Menase]

if you want to be able to get any char

SAVstty=$(stty -g)
stty raw min 1 time 0
a="$(od -A n -c -N 1)
stty $SAVstty
echo $a




if you type a you will get \r
if you type a ^J you will get \n
a backspace \b
a tab \t
.....
if you replace -c in od command by -x then you get the ascii value in hex.

[Leo The Cat]

Thanks Guys last two posts was very helpfull !

The final way to solve this small affair is:

echo -n "Enter a character: " # prompt
/bin/stty -icanon && /bin/stty eol ^A
key=`dd if=/dev/tty bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null` # read a key press
/bin/stty icanon && /bin/stty eol ^@
echo "$key" # echo newline and/or key -- OPTIONAL


Bests Regards
Den