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To: Skye Poier <skye@isilon.com>
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Subject: Re: prompting
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Skye Poier <skye@isilon.com> writes:

> Second zsh question..
> What would be [a|the best] way to do a y/n prompt in a zsh function?
> Single keypress would be best of course, but y<cr> is ok too
> 
> print -n "Are you sure you want to do that? [y/n] "
> then??

read -q ?

Phil.