bash scripting - read single keystroke including special keys enter and space

Question

Not sure if I should put this on stackoverflow or unix.stackexchange but I found some similar questions here, so here it goes.

I\'m trying to create a script to be c

Answer 1

Try setting the read delimiter to an empty string then check the builtin $REPLY variable:

read -d'' -s -n1

For some reason I couldn't get it to work specifying a variable.