Prompting for yes/no in csh

Dave Keber dkeber at umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
Wed Jan 9 02:29:31 AEST 1991


This may sound like a stupid question to you Unix wizards, but I'm just 
getting started in writing shell scripts and I would like to know:

What is the easiest way to prompt for a yes/no (or any string/number, etc.)
from a csh shell script?

I thought of writing a short C program that asks for input then writing the
answer to standard output, and then calling that program in my shell script,
but that seems a rather convoluted way of going about it...or is it?

Dave



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