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From: dkeber@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Dave Keber)
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Subject: Prompting for yes/no in csh
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Date: 8 Jan 91 15:29:31 GMT
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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