yes
Output something repeatedly. This command is commonly used to answer yes to every prompt by install commands (such as apt-get). More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/yes-invocation.html.
- Repeatedly output "message":
yes
message
- Repeatedly output "y":
yes
- Accept everything prompted by the
apt-get
command:
yes | sudo apt-get install
program
- Repeatedly output a newline to always accept the default option of a prompt:
yes ''