In Bash, how to add “Are you sure [Y/n]” to any command or alias?

Question

In this particular case, I\'d like to add a confirm in Bash for

Are you sure? [Y/n]

for Mercurial\'s hg push ssh://username@www.example.com//some

Answer 1

read -r -p "Are you sure? [Y/n]" response
  response=${response,,} # tolower
  if [[ $response =~ ^(yes|y| ) ]] || [[ -z $response ]]; then
      your-action-here
  fi