Re: the yes comand

2009-03-07 Thread Pierre Guinoiseau
Matthew Seaman wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:06, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean, what's the sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it kind of silly If you

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: if you have program that do too much questions like (are you sure), and you are sure then you do yes|program yes Continue | Vista -uac Bit o' humor in an otherwise too-serious world. Laugh. It'll

the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
Hell-o, Ever wondered about the yes command? Well, I have. If one does yes into a terminal one get's an infinit output of y on a new line each time. What's the deal here? I saw the same thing on linux, but you only had to type y (those cheap blokes :P) So... what's going on ?

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: Hell-o, Ever wondered about the yes command? Well, I have. If one does yes into a terminal one get's an infinit output of y on a new line each time. What's the deal here? I saw the same thing on linux,

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean, what's the sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it kind of silly If you ask me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:06, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean, what's the sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it kind of silly If you ask me. But, incredibly useful if you

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Hell-o, Ever wondered about the yes command? Well, I have. If one does yes into a terminal one get's an infinit output of y on a new line each time. What's the deal here? The ``yes'' command is designed to automate interactive scripts

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
thx Bill, got the picture now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
if you have program that do too much questions like (are you sure), and you are sure then you do yes|program On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Hell-o, Ever wondered about the yes command? Well, I have. If one does yes into a terminal one get's an infinit output of y on a

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:06, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean, what's the sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it kind of silly If you ask me. But, incredibly