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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to exit on no reponse Post 302980663 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 31st of August 2016 11:23:35 AM
Old 08-31-2016
Maybe the following would give you an example to work from:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
	read -r -p "Is this correct? [y/N] " response
	if [[ $response =~ ^[nN][oO]?$ ]]
	then
		echo 'match'  && exit
	else
		echo 'no match'
	fi
done

The RE ^[nN][oO]?$ matches a one or two character string anchored at the start of the string (^) where the first character is a lowercase or uppercase n ([nN]), followed by zero or one (?) lowercase or uppercase o ([oO]), and anchored to the end of the string ($).
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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