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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh prompt yes/no question Post 302908959 by wisecracker on Saturday 12th of July 2014 04:05:32 AM
Old 07-12-2014
You want to default to YES, although I would personally do it the other way and force the user to enter a 'Y or y'.
However how about using the _wildcard_ '*'...
(On CygWin at the moment and don't have ksh available so using sh instead...)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "is this SQL query ? Y/N"
read  answer
case $answer in
        N|n)
                echo "got a 'no'"
                ;;
        *)
                echo "got a positive answer"
                ;;
esac
exit 0

Results on CygWin...
Code:
AMIGA:~> chmod 755 /tmp/yn.sh
AMIGA:~> cd /tmp
AMIGA:/tmp> dos2unix yn.sh
dos2unix: converting file yn.sh to Unix format ...
AMIGA:/tmp> ./yn.sh
is this SQL query ? Y/N
slkflksflksldkflskflksjf
got a positive answer
AMIGA:/tmp> ./yn.sh
is this SQL query ? Y/N

got a positive answer
AMIGA:/tmp> ./yn.sh
is this SQL query ? Y/N
Y
got a positive answer
AMIGA:/tmp> ./yn.sh
is this SQL query ? Y/N
y
got a positive answer
AMIGA:/tmp> ./yn.sh
is this SQL query ? Y/N
N
got a 'no'
AMIGA:/tmp> ./yn.sh
is this SQL query ? Y/N
n
got a 'no'
AMIGA:/tmp> _

 

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SYNOPSIS
bool sqlite_exec (resource $dbhandle, string $query, [string &$error_msg]) DESCRIPTION
bool sqlite_exec (string $query, resource $dbhandle) Object oriented style (method): bool SQLiteDatabase::queryExec (string $query, [string &$error_msg]) Executes an SQL statement given by the $query against a given database handle (specified by the $dbhandle parameter). Warning SQLite will execute multiple queries separated by semicolons, so you can use it to execute a batch of SQL that you have loaded from a file or have embedded in a script. PARAMETERS
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