Clearing the input buffer before a read.

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <1990Nov26.001425.15563 at massey.ac.nz> K.Spagnolo at massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
>I want to
>be able to flush the input buffer just before the read ...

This is pretty nasty but it might do what you want:

	old_modes=`stty -g`		# save old modes
	stty -icanon min '^@' time '^@'	# read whats already there
	read junk			# read all thats waiting
	stty $old_modes			# restore old modes

You may want to make this bullet-proof about interrupts though.

I tried this on AIX Version 2 (RT).

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