inquire ()  {
  echo  -n "$1 [y/n]? "
  read answer
  finish="-1"
  while [ "$finish" = '-1' ]
  do
    finish="1"
    if [ "$answer" = '' ];
    then
      answer=""
    else
      case $answer in
        y | Y | yes | YES ) answer="y";;
        n | N | no | NO ) answer="n";;
        *) finish="-1";
           echo -n 'Invalid response -- please reenter:';
           read answer;;
       esac
    fi
  done
}

... other stuff

inquire "Install now?"

...

一个衬垫：

read -p "Continue? [Enter] → Yes, [Ctrl]+[C] → No."

这假设“否”和“取消”具有相同的结果，因此没有理由区别对待它们。

您可以使用内置的read命令；使用-p选项向用户提示问题。

从BASH4开始，您现在可以使用-i建议答案：

read -e -p "Enter the path to the file: " -i "/usr/local/etc/" FILEPATH
echo $FILEPATH

（但请记住使用“readline”选项-e以允许使用箭头键进行行编辑）

如果你想要一个“是/否”的逻辑，你可以这样做：

read -e -p "
List the content of your home dir ? [Y/n] " YN

[[ $YN == "y" || $YN == "Y" || $YN == "" ]] && ls -la ~/

仅单个按键

这里有一个更长但可重复使用的模块化方法：

返回0=yes和1=no无需按enter键-仅需一个字符可以按enter键接受默认选择可以禁用默认选项以强制选择适用于zsh和bash。

按enter键时默认为“否”

请注意，N是大写的。此处按enter键，接受默认值：

$ confirm "Show dangerous command" && echo "rm *"
Show dangerous command [y/N]?

还要注意，[y/N]？已自动追加。默认的“no”被接受，因此不会有任何回音。

重新提示，直到给出有效响应：

$ confirm "Show dangerous command" && echo "rm *"
Show dangerous command [y/N]? X
Show dangerous command [y/N]? y
rm *

按回车键时默认为“是”

请注意，Y是大写的：

$ confirm_yes "Show dangerous command" && echo "rm *"
Show dangerous command [Y/n]?
rm *

上面，我刚刚按了回车键，所以命令运行了。

输入时无默认值-需要y或n

$ get_yes_keypress "Here you cannot press enter. Do you like this [y/n]? "
Here you cannot press enter. Do you like this [y/n]? k
Here you cannot press enter. Do you like this [y/n]?
Here you cannot press enter. Do you like this [y/n]? n
$ echo $?
1

这里，返回了1或false。请注意，使用此较低级别的函数，您需要提供自己的[y/n]？促使

Code

# Read a single char from /dev/tty, prompting with "$*"
# Note: pressing enter will return a null string. Perhaps a version terminated with X and then remove it in caller?
# See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/367880/143394 for dealing with multi-byte, etc.
function get_keypress {
  local REPLY IFS=
  >/dev/tty printf '%s' "$*"
  [[ $ZSH_VERSION ]] && read -rk1  # Use -u0 to read from STDIN
  # See https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383197/143394 regarding '\n' -> ''
  [[ $BASH_VERSION ]] && </dev/tty read -rn1
  printf '%s' "$REPLY"
}

# Get a y/n from the user, return yes=0, no=1 enter=$2
# Prompt using $1.
# If set, return $2 on pressing enter, useful for cancel or defualting
function get_yes_keypress {
  local prompt="${1:-Are you sure [y/n]? }"
  local enter_return=$2
  local REPLY
  # [[ ! $prompt ]] && prompt="[y/n]? "
  while REPLY=$(get_keypress "$prompt"); do
    [[ $REPLY ]] && printf '\n' # $REPLY blank if user presses enter
    case "$REPLY" in
      Y|y)  return 0;;
      N|n)  return 1;;
      '')   [[ $enter_return ]] && return "$enter_return"
    esac
  done
}

# Credit: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/14444/143394
# Prompt to confirm, defaulting to NO on <enter>
# Usage: confirm "Dangerous. Are you sure?" && rm *
function confirm {
  local prompt="${*:-Are you sure} [y/N]? "
  get_yes_keypress "$prompt" 1
}    

# Prompt to confirm, defaulting to YES on <enter>
function confirm_yes {
  local prompt="${*:-Are you sure} [Y/n]? "
  get_yes_keypress "$prompt" 0
}

echo "Please enter some input: "
read input_variable
echo "You entered: $input_variable"

这是我在脚本/函数中通常需要的：

如果按ENTER键，默认答案为“是”也接受z（如果你在QWERTZ布局上搞混了）接受其他语言（“ja”、“Oui”、…）如果您在函数内部，请处理正确的出口

while true; do
    read -p "Continue [Y/n]? " -n 1 -r -e yn
    case "${yn:-Y}" in
        [YyZzOoJj]* ) echo; break ;;
        [Nn]* ) [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1 ;; # handle exits from shell or function but don't exit interactive shell
        * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";;
    esac
done
echo "and off we go!"