Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:07:06 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/53827/empty-keyboard-buffer <p>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</p> Fri, 20 May 2011 05:51:02 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/53827/empty-keyboard-buffer