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The pause command suitable for a shell.
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#!/bin/sh
# 2014 CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
# A little implementation of pause.
[ -t 0 ] || exit
[ $# -ge 1 ] && msg="$@" || msg="Press any key ..."
read -p "$msg" -n 1 c
[ x"$c" = x"" ] || echo -e "\b "
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