#!/bin/sh set -eu usage() { cat <<-'EOF' Usage: prompt STRING|- prompt -h EOF } help() { cat <<-'EOF' Options: -h, --help show this message STRING the text to be displayed in the prompt Display a prompt and return a value corresponding to the response. Examples: Conditionally run download command: if prompt 'Download files?'; then run_download; fi EOF } for flag in "$@"; do case "$flag" in (--) break ;; (--help) usage help exit ;; (*) ;; esac done while getopts 'h' flag; do case "$flag" in (h) usage help exit ;; (*) usage >&2 exit 2 ;; esac done shift $((OPTIND - 1)) STRING="${1:-}" eval "$(assert-arg -- "$STRING" 'STRING')" printf '%s' "$STRING" printf ' [Y/n]: ' read -r yesno if [ "$yesno" != 'n' ] && [ "$yesno" != 'N' ]; then exit 0 else exit 1 fi