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| author | Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz> | 2006-01-25 17:59:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz> | 2006-01-25 17:59:55 +0000 |
| commit | 2393bfe754c416ce7456ad893ae152214a396f76 (patch) | |
| tree | d3e71d3d90db0bf7782ab3ff005bed063082d957 | |
| parent | 8542d5743685412b5517efb77d4fc6d0bf44bae4 (diff) | |
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Add man page for getkey.
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diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile index 836ae70b..c691870b 100644 --- a/src/Makefile +++ b/src/Makefile @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ install: install -m 644 initlog.1 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man1 install -m 644 genhostid.1 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man1 install -m 644 doexec.1 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man1 + install -m 644 getkey.1 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man1 install -m 644 netreport.1 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man1 install -m 644 usleep.1 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man1 install -m 644 usernetctl.8 $(ROOT)$(mandir)/man8 diff --git a/src/getkey.1 b/src/getkey.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d445c398 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/getkey.1 @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +.\" A man page for getkey(1). -*- nroff -*- +.\" +.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, +.\" modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the +.\" GNU General Public License v.2. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT +.\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or +.\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for +.\" more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +.\" with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +.\" 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +.\" +.\" Author: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> +.TH getkey 1 "Jan 2006" + +.SH NAME +getkey \- wait until a key is pressed + +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBgetkey\fR [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIKEYS\fR] + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B getkey +waits until one of +.I KEYS +is pressed. +If +.I KEYS +are not specified, any key is accepted. +.I KEYS +are matched case-insensitive. + +.SH EXIT STATUS +.B getkey +exits with status 0 if one of the expected keys is pressed. +If invalid arguments are specified, +.B getkey +exits with status 255. +If +.B getkey +is interrupted or the wait times out, +.B getkey +exits with other non-zero status. + +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-wait\fR \fISECONDS\fR +Wait only for +.I SECONDS +seconds. +The default is 0, which means to wait without a time limit. + +.TP +\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-control\-chars\fR +Don't treat Ctrl+C and Ctrl+D specially. +When this option is not specified, these characters interrupt \fBgetkey\fR. + +.TP +\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-message\fR \fIMESSAGE\fR +Display +.I MESSAGE +while waiting. +The message is used as a format string in +.BR sprintf (8), +with a single argument, the number of seconds left. +Typical usage is therefore +\fB"Press a key within %d seconds to ..."\fR. +If +.I MESSAGE +contains other format string directives, the behavior is undefined and +.B getkey +may crash. + +If there is no time limit specified, +the number of seconds left is reported as 0. |