How do I prompt a user for confirmation in bash script?

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read -p "Are you sure? " -n 1 -r
echo    # (optional) move to a new line
if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
    # do dangerous stuff
fi

Edit :

I incorporated levislevis85 's suggestion (thanks!) and added the -n option to read to accept one character without the need to press Enter. You can use one or both of these.

Also, the negated form might look like this:

read -p "Are you sure? " -n 1 -r
echo    # (optional) move to a new line
if [[ ! $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1 # handle exits from shell or function but don't exit interactive shell
fi

However, as pointed out by Erich, under some circumstances such as a syntax error caused by the script being run in the wrong shell, the negated form could allow the script to continue to the "dangerous stuff". The failure mode should favor the safest outcome so only the first, non-negated if should be used.

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use case/esac.

read -p "Continue (y/n)?" choice
case "$choice" in 
  y|Y ) echo "yes";;
  n|N ) echo "no";;
  * ) echo "invalid";;
esac

advantage:

neater

can use "OR" condition easier

can use character range, eg [yY][eE][sS] to accept word "yes", where any of its characters may be in lowercase or in uppercase.

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这样你可以得到'是''是'或'输入'

 read -r -p "Are you sure? [Y/n]" response
 response=${response,,} # tolower
 if [[ $response =~ ^(yes|y| ) ]] || [[ -z $response ]]; then
    your-action-here
 fi

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