Thread: Shell script to wait for user input from K3g keyboard
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Old 03-28-2012, 05:19 PM   #28
jmseight
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Hi,

I tried
ST="$ST$L"

and whenever I hit the space things seems to get messed up so I cna no longer type anything else except Aa to terminate the script.

The echo command
ST="$(echo \"$ST$L\")"

also does the same thing, except a lot of " signs are added to the string.

Thanks,
JAmes
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