Bash Spacebar Break

Here’s how to add breaks in your Bash scripts. The function is called spacebar.

<pre lang="bash">
function spacebar {
  echo 'Press spacebar to continue. Press Ctrl-C to exit.'
  stty -echo > /dev/null
  until read -r -n 1 -t 0.001 && [ "$REPLY" = ' ' ]; do abc=''; done
  stty echo > /dev/null
}

spacebar

You can call it multiple times in your script since it’s a function.