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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting basic script for yes and no answers Post 302193116 by llsmr777 on Thursday 8th of May 2008 02:26:58 PM

05-08-2008

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I'm sorry I'm still having a hard time understanding:

" It adds an 'N' to the end of whatever reply was supplied, thereby creating a default should the user hit enter without typing anything. "

So if someone hit enter without typing anything then it inputs a N so that it will exit?

Why is this good practice? Like what is a sample scenerio?

"to not have the result of any calculation to use the source variable as the destination variable."

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