NAME¶

keywait - pause and wait for input.

SYNOPSIS¶

keywait [options] [prompt]

DESCRIPTION¶

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 CODES¶

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

AUTHOR¶

keywait was written by David Sugar <dyfet@gnutelephony.org>.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to bug-commoncpp@gnu.org or bugs@gnutelephony.org.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2013-2014 David Sugar, Tycho Softworks.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.