[SunHELP] Scripting Question

[Ledger, David]

Start with something like (in ksh):

	(read x </dev/tty) &
	readpid=$!
	(sleep 10; kill $readpid) &
	sleeppid=$!
	fg %-
	kill -0 $sleeppid && kill $sleeppid

The last line just prevents 'kill: nnnn: no such process' messages if you
use the keyboard exit.
This doesn't work on any key i/p, there has to be a <return>.
The above works when typed in.  Havn't tried the exact above in a script,
but I do have a script somwhere that uses this approach.
Putting '>/dev/null 2>&1' in various places once you've got it going will
reduce spurious output.

The Version 6 system I first learned Unix on had a simpler method in it's
boot up sequence, but I've never been able to figure out what it was since.
It only had one b/g process.

David

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v v v v v v v v
 Hello Every one,

 I have a shell script which in one stage o its run sleeps for defined time
 period (which is hard coded).
 I want the script to sleep and continue after the sleep time, but if a key
 on the key board is pressed it should come out of the sleep and continue
 before it completes the sleep cycle.
 Any pointers
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