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If it has to be an uppercase &quot;Y&quot; add in the appropriate place:<br />
<br />
A=&quot;N&quot;<br />
while [[ $A != &quot;Y&quot; ]]<br />
&nbsp; do <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;read A<br />
&nbsp; done<br />
<br />
Otherwise (if it can be any character or even just the &lt;Enter&gt; key) a simple<br />
<br />
read A<br />
<br />
would suffice.
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If it has to be an uppercase "Y" add in the appropriate place:

A="N"
while [[ $A != "Y" ]]
  do
     read A
  done

Otherwise (if it can be any character or even just the <Enter> key) a simple

read A

would suffice.

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I would love it to say the following:<br />
<br />
Press Y to to continue or X to Exit...<br />
<br />
And then they press the appropriate key.<br />
<br />
Does that make better sense?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
John
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I would love it to say the following:

Press Y to to continue or X to Exit...

And then they press the appropriate key.

Does that make better sense?

Thanks
John

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The &quot;read&quot; statement under ksh would look like this:<br />
<br />
read A?&quot;Press Y to to continue or X to Exit...&quot;<br />
<br />
All other stuff can remain the same.
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The "read" statement under ksh would look like this:

read A?"Press Y to to continue or X to Exit..."

All other stuff can remain the same.

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OK, I will try it out and let you know within 30 min.
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OK, I will try it out and let you know within 30 min.

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I am getting the following error:<br />
<br />
[[N!=Y]]: not Found<br />
<br />
Thoughts?<br />
<br />
John
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I am getting the following error:

[[N!=Y]]: not Found

Thoughts?

John

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The variables/strings must be separated from the double square brackets as well as from the comparison operator by spaces:<br />
<br />
[[ $A != &quot;Y&quot; ]]
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The variables/strings must be separated from the double square brackets as well as from the comparison operator by spaces:

[[ $A != "Y" ]]

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Ok, Ill give that a try. &nbsp;Thanks
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The solution worked out great. &nbsp;Sorry it took so long to respond.
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The solution worked out great.  Sorry it took so long to respond.

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So my script does many things and it does them rather fast thanks to all that have helped out over the past two days. &nbsp;I would like to pause the script and allow the user to hit Y to continue is this possible and if so, how?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
John
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So my script does many things and it does them rather fast thanks to all that have helped out over the past two days.  I would like to pause the script and allow the user to hit Y to continue is this possible and if so, how?

Thanks
John

Adding a continue option in a script

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