From 88d06a08a8baf460188745f1d748dd83f275356f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:12:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kamctl: kamdbctl.base - replaced get_answer() with a portable
 version

- contributed by Sergey Safarov, GH #2019
---
 utils/kamctl/kamdbctl.base | 19 +++++++------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/kamctl/kamdbctl.base b/utils/kamctl/kamdbctl.base
index 7029fd386ea..3846196b200 100644
--- a/utils/kamctl/kamdbctl.base
+++ b/utils/kamctl/kamdbctl.base
@@ -205,16 +205,11 @@ merr() {
 #
 get_answer ()
 {
-    value=$1
-    question=$2
-    if [ "${value}" = "ask" ]; then
-        echo -n "$question"
-        read ANSWER
-    else
-        ANSWER=${value}
-    fi
-    ANSWER=${ANSWER:0:1}
-    ANSWER=${ANSWER/Y/y}
-    ANSWER=${ANSWER/N/n}
+	value=$1
+	question=$2
+	if [ "${value}" = "ask" ]; then
+		echo -n "$question"
+		read value
+	fi
+	ANSWER=$(echo ${value} | grep -o -e '[YyNn]' | sed -e 's/Y/y/' -e 's/N/n/')
 }
-