Many times, you find yourself in a situation where you have to wait for a long task to complete, maybe little to no output available, and you end up hitting that Ctrl-C, pushing a SIGINT into the CLI software.

And it quits.

Without outputting whatever you needed or even printing a little progress. And it’s a little frustrating, even though it’s probably working as expected, taking what SIGINT does in consideration.

So, how do we introduce a classic “do you really want to exit?” confirmation in a Go CLI software?