How to use Bash read with a timeout?

Question

I can ask the user to press Enter by using read, and have him wait by calling sleep. But I can’t think of a way of doing both at the sam

Answer 1

From the bash reference manual :

read [-ers] [-a aname] [-d delim] [-i text] [-n nchars] [-N nchars] [-p prompt][-t timeout][-u fd] [name ...]