On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 7/4/06, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>
>> > I need to be able to send text out for a simple help system. What I need
>> > is something that will read text down to some sort of break symbol or
>> > group of symbols and then stop, prompt the user for a carrage return or
>> > space or some other control character in order to send more text.
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> #! /bin/bash
>>
>> textfile="$1"
>> prompt="Press enter to continue: "
>> my_tty=`tty`
>>
>> while read line ; do
>> if echo "$line" | grep -q -e '^-$' ; then
>> read -p "$prompt" junk < $my_tty
>> echo
>> else
>> echo "$line"
>> fi
>> done < "$textfile"
>
> Well, I thought it was going to work but then as soon as I did the test
> where I connected to the system from a distant location I got the same
> thing the whole file is dumped to me.
Huh. That's a failure mode I hadn't anticipated. Is it printing the prompt
at appropriate places? What file are you using to test it?
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