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How to ask yes or no in bash script?
Simple “Yes/No” Dialog In Bash One of the most widely used method to ask user for a confirmation in a bash script is to combine read + case commands (source): while true; do read -p “Do you wish to install this program?” yn case $yn in [Yy]*) make install; break;; [Nn]*) exit;; *) echo “Please answer yes or no.”;; esac done
How to accept ” are you Sure you want to “?
I guess remote commands have to be declared in a string which is passed to the ssh command as an argument e.g. If you don’t care to authenticate the hosts via SSH and either blindly accept the keys from servers or ignore them, better to just ignore them.
How to pass yes in SCP command stack?
I am facing an issue when I run simply these commands. The remote server want to pass yes to add the key in RSA file because first time connection established with scp. #!/bin/bash scp -P58222 root@IP:/root/K /N /usr/bin/expect -c ‘expect ” ” { expect “Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?”
How to ignore or pass’yes’when authenticity can’t be?
It’s possible to avoid this question and accept all incoming keys automaticatilly by using ssh client option StrictHostKeyChecking set to no (default setting is ask, which results in that question): However, note that it would be hardly any secure, as you’re basically accepting connect with everyone who may act as a given host.
How to ask a yes or no question?
The function described here is for doing that: asking a question and validating the answer. The function is pretty simple it accepts a couple of options and the remainder of the arguments are presumed to be the question text. It prompts the user for an answer and validates that the answer is one of “yes”, “y”, “no”, or “n”.
Can you call another script from within a script?
YES. You CAN call another script (or command line function, or whatever) from within a script. And whether or not you need the complete path is dependent upon the $PATH of the user that is running it. Suffice to say, it can’t hurt. Note that in your brief logic, you have it saying that it started AFTER it finished!
Why is the response text the same as the question?
Notice the last couple of lines, no answer was provided so the default was used after the timeout. That’s why the response text appears on the same line as the question. Mitch Frazier is an embedded systems programmer at Emerson Electric Co. Mitch has been a contributor to and a friend of Linux Journal since the early 2000s.