Re: Using crontab to update Debian
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, 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.
I do believe there is a switch you can feed apt-get called '-y' that
essentially does the same thing.
-Justin Akehurst
akehurst@wcug.wwu.edu
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