I'm working on a perl program that's an interactive-front end for launching a lot of long, slow processes I have to do. When one finishes, I would like the program to ask if I would like to continue. That isn't too hard.. but if I don't answer in X amount of time, I want it to stop waiting and to continue on its own. How do I do this?

I'm imagining something like:

X done. Y starting in 15 seconds. Press any key to do Z instead.
X done. Y starting in 14 seconds. Press any key to do Z instead.
...snip...
X done. Y starting in 1 second. Press any key to do Z instead.
No input received, doing Y.

... etc. I'm totally stumped as I have no idea how to do this with <STDIN>. How do I do this?

In reply to CLI Interactivity - Timed Prompt by viska

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