Timeout

Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Date: 1999/02/03

and it seems you could do this:

#!/bin/sh
while true
 do
   echo -n "[hit |ENTER| to stop startx loop]"
   stty -icanon min 0 time 50
   read key in
     if [ ! -e $key ];then
        startx
     else
        exit 0
     fi
   stty sane
 done

Jim Surles