keywait1

Usage

Overview

Pause and wait for keyboard input. A prompt can be displayed to the user, and the timeout to wait for keyboard input can be specified. Before waiting any pending input is automatically flushed. If no timeout is specified then keywait will wait forever.

Options

--timeout=seconds

Specify number of seconds to wait for input.

--help

Outputs help screen for the user.

Exit status

Returns 0 if keyboard entry was received. 1 if timeout. 2 for any error.