/ Published in: Bash
Empties the keyboard buffer. Useful to discard keyboard input during a command execution inside a bash script.
Try this script without this line:
read -t 0.1 -N 255
and enter any garbage ([ENTER] and all) during these 2 seconds window...
The modifiers:
-t 0.1 Tiemout read on 0.1 seconds - so read won't wait to get all 255 characters
-N 255 Read 255 characters, treating any special character ([ENTER], tabs, etc.) as normal characters
Try this script without this line:
read -t 0.1 -N 255
and enter any garbage ([ENTER] and all) during these 2 seconds window...
The modifiers:
-t 0.1 Tiemout read on 0.1 seconds - so read won't wait to get all 255 characters
-N 255 Read 255 characters, treating any special character ([ENTER], tabs, etc.) as normal characters