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Asked: 2026-05-17T00:54:46+00:00

I need to wait for an input for 20 seconds, after that myscript should

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I need to wait for an input for 20 seconds, after that myscript should continue the execution.
I’ve tried using read -t20 var however this works only on bash. I’m using ksh on Solaris 10.

Can someone help me please?

EDIT: 20 seconds is only an example. Let’s pretend it needs to wait for 1 hour. But the guy could or could not be in front the PC to write the input, he doesn’t need to wait the 1 hour to enter an input, but if he’s not in front of the PC so the shell should continue the execution after waiting for some time.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Look at this forum thread it has the answer in the third post.

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