What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can anybody set me straight.  Thanks in advance.

void writeAndPause(string s)
{
    writeln(s);
    // writeln("Press any key to continue...");  // works fine on Windows
    // executeShell("pause");                    // works fine on Windows

I tried the following read command and it works great in a Ubuntu shell:
read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 key

but when I put it in executeShell it doesn't pause and returns

executeShell(`read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 key`);
executeShell("read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 key");

returns /bin/sh: 1: read: Illegal option -s


I tried the spawnShell...

auto pid = spawnShell(`read -n1 -r -p "Press any key to continue..." key`);
wait(pid);

 returns  /bin/sh: 1: read: Illegal option -n
}

On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 19:08:00 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
> What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can anybody set me straight.  Thanks in advance.
>
> [...]

Use the getchar() function.

void pause(const string msg = "Press enter/return to continue...")
{
	write(msg);
	getchar();
}

On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 00:54:21 UTC, Zekereth wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 19:08:00 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>> What I thought would be trivial is becoming a nightmare. Can anybody set me straight.  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Use the getchar() function.
>
> void pause(const string msg = "Press enter/return to continue...")
> {
> 	write(msg);
> 	getchar();
> }

just call std.stdio.stdin.read() and ignore the result...