On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:43:50PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > There is a holdover command from Berkely Unix called "yes" used almost > exclusively in scripting--what it does is continuously applies yes^M (the > ^M is a representation of the return key) [wups--apparently it replies > only y now] while it's active. So what your script line > would be is yes | apt-get -d dist-upgrade, > thus the script can run an interactive program relatively > non-interactively. The only caveat here is it will ONLY reply yes^M > There is also a command called no for when you wish to reply no to any > input.
actually, you can type anything after yes and it will continuously output that string. ie: $ yes no no no no ... rcy