What is the Linux equivalent to DOS pause?

Question

I have a Bash shell script in which I would like to pause execution until the user presses a key. In DOS, this is easily accomplished with the \"pause\" command. Is there a

Answer 1

This worked for me on multiple flavors of Linux, where some of these other solutions did not (including the most popular ones here). I think it's more readable too...

echo Press enter to continue; read dummy;

Note that a variable needs to be supplied as an argument to read.