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Re: /svn/athena r23837 - trunk/debathena/scripts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Jun 8 13:12:31 2009
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, source-commits@mit.edu
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 03:29 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>>> + if [ "$yn" != "yes" ]; then
>
>> Um, I am confused. If I reply "yes" to the question "Is that a good
>> idea?", then the script dies.
>
> I think you misread the sense of the test.
yup.
> However, I think the question may be using confusing syntax:
>
>> + echo -n "which is probably backwards. Is that a good idea [yes/N]? "
>
> Often, brackets used like that indicate a default, but here they are
> used to list the possible options.
It's like [y/N], except you have to spell out the word "yes". If you type
"yes", the script will continue. If you type anything else, including "n"
or nothing, then it will die.
I did test this a few times (on my laptop that doesn't have reprepro
installed), so it does work correctly.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
