On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:45, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Greetings > > Could some one please help here: > Why does the second prompt in this part of the script skip? > > this is what I get in the shell: > > Installing the Kernel, Do you want continue? (Y/N) y > Installing the Kernel Source, Do you want continue? (Y/N) Please enter Y or N > > > This is the section of the script. > > > > read -n 1 -p "Installing the Kernel, Do you want continue? (Y/N) " YesNo > > > case $YesNo in > > y|Y) > rpm -i kernel-2.6*.i686.rpm > ;; > > n|N) > > exit 0 > ;; > > *) > echo -e "Please enter Y or N" > ;; > esac > > > > > read -n 1 -p "Installing the Kernel Source, Do you want continue? (Y/N) " > YesNo > > > case $YesNo in > > y|Y) > rpm -i kernel-2.6*.src.rpm > ;; > > n|N) > > exit 0 > ;; > > *) > echo -e "Please enter Y or N" > ;; > esac > Simple answer perhaps... Are you hitting return after entering Y? Note your read -n 1 is, I believe only going to read the one letter and the "return" is buffered for the next read statement??? Of course, I am assuming that it was just the email that wrapped your second "YesNo" onto a second line.... ;-) --Rob
