Prompting for yes/no in csh

Rich Salz rsalz at bbn.com
Thu Jan 10 02:13:13 AEST 1991


In <1991Jan8.204745.16927 at informix.com> dberg at informix.com (David I. Berg) writes:
>    echo -n "This is my question. What is your answer? [y/n] (n): "
I have found that
	echo "say what?" | tr -d '\012'
is the most portable way to handle both
	echo -n
and	echo stuff\c

/r$
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