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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Prompting for yes/no in csh
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Date: 9 Jan 91 15:13:13 GMT
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In <1991Jan8.204745.16927@informix.com> dberg@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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