Question

I want to write this bash loop for zsh

while true; do echo "print something"; read -p "pause"; done

This loop echos, then waits for the user to press enter. If I enter it as is, the read statement doesn’t pause, causing zsh to infinitely echo “print something” without waiting for the user to press enter.

Answer 1

It looks like -p does something different in zsh. You will probably need something like read some_variable\?pause.