Re: the "yes" comand

[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 useful if you actually write shell scripts - many
programs want a 'y' for input from the stdin, and this will do that
for you.

Here's an example.  When upgrading FreeBSD, especially over a large delta
in version numbers, you will frequently need to delete old files etc. that
are no longer part of the base system.  You are provided with a mechanism
to do that, viz:

  # cd /usr/src

  # make delete-old
     {prompts you to delete anything apart from shlibs which it won't touch}

However 'make delete-old' will ask you whether you want to delete each
and every individual file, which is tedious.  If you decide from your
inspection of the 'make check-old' output that you don't want any of the
old files, you can just run:

  # yes | make delete-old

Job done.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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# make check-old {prints out all old files, directories and libraries to be deleted}

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