CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxbash
YetNT
YetNT

Reputation: 19

What have i done wrong here? or is there a better alternitive to $answer?

Lately ive been busy playing around with bash on my linux operating system, and im also using it too sort files. But this does not seem to work. Is there an alternitive way of what im doing or is it wrong?

echo -n "Are you sure you would like to delete this/these files? [y/n]"

if [ $answer == "y" ]; then
 echo -n "Which File would you like to delete?"
 rm $answer
else
 echo "canceled!"
fi

Upvotes: 0

Views: 44

Answers (1)

Saboteur
Saboteur

Reputation: 1428

Check the following usage of "read" command

read -n1 -p "Are you sure you would like to delete this/these files? [y/n]: " answer

if [ "$answer" == "y" ]; then
 read -p "Which File would you like to delete: " filename
 rm $filename
else
 echo "cancelled!"
fi

Upvotes: 1

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