bash user input if

Question

I am tring to do simple

Do you want to do that? [Y,n] _

question in bash.

i tried

echo \"Do that? [Y,n]\"
read DO_T         


        

Answer 1

You might consider explicit prompting: -p and specifying 1-character-input -n1 which allows to insert y without ENTER.

read -n1 -p "Do that? [y,n]" doit 
case $doit in  
  y|Y) echo yes ;; 
  n|N) echo no ;; 
  *) echo dont know ;; 
esac