https://theholtsite.com/blog/45/ Ben, Jill, and Alice Holt Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://theholtsite.com/blog/45/#comment-75 Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:19:22 +0000 http://theholtsite.com/blog/blog.php/?p=45#comment-75 “yes” outputs the answer indefinitely! A better utility for question answering in a program is probably “jot” which has a ton more options. Correct me if I’m wrong though 🙂 There was another one too, which is specifically designed to do just that, and has a huge man page, but I forgot what it was called.

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/45/#comment-74 Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:40:30 +0000 http://theholtsite.com/blog/blog.php/?p=45#comment-74 Actually, ‘yes’ is quite useful. If you’re compiling a program or running some other program where it is asking a bunch of questions, and you know you’re going to answer the same to all of them, you simply execute the ‘yes’ command with the desired answer, and pipe the output of that into the other program. It will do the work of answering “yes” for you!

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