---
name: "pauseme"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tkdesk"
version: "2.0-12"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pauseme"
---

# pauseme(1)

execute a command a pause afterwards

## NAME

pauseme - execute a command a pause afterwards

## SYNOPSIS

**pauseme** *command* \[ *arg ...* \] \

## DESCRIPTION

**pauseme** is a (very) simple script that simply executes the command given it with the given arguments.  After the command completes, **pauseme** displays a prompt to press return, and after the user presses return, exits.

It is intended to allow the user to examine output from a command that is invoked in a separate terminal window.

## OPTIONS

This command takes no options

## SEE ALSO

[tkdesk(1)](/tkdesk/1.md), [cd-tkdesk(1)](/cd-tkdesk/1.md), [ed-tkdesk(1)](/ed-tkdesk/1.md), [od-tkdesk(1)](/od-tkdesk/1.md)

## AUTHOR

Christian Bolik (Christian.Bolik@mainz.netsurf.de) wrote the script, Daniel Martin (fizbin@debian.org) wrote the manpage for the Debian Linux distribution.