script change keyboard mapping?

[Allasso]

Hello,

Not sure if the title is appropriate, but here is what I would like to do:

script running in terminal pauses and waits for user input.

user is able to input strings with linebreaks, ie, types a line, hit return, types another line, return, and as he is doing this, the lines appear on the screen like they would in an editor:

line 1
line 2
line 3
...

presses some other key (combination) to send the input to the script.

Is this possible? I have been looking into stty, but my experiments haven't come up with anything useful. Maybe some utility like tput, except for tty?

Thanks,

Allasso

[Allasso]

in perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my @userinput = <STDIN>;
foreach (@userinput) { print; }

wonder if there's a way in bash?

[Schmidt]

I suppose, you could just read line by line using `read`command and check if string contains some special character, using `grep`