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From: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com>
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Subject: Re: Yes lives!
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Yes, I know the -y switch all to well, unfortunately.  I was just reminded
that once upon a time there wasn't a -y and we had to do things a bit
different.  I was just wondering if there was actually any other use for
yes.

Thanks,
Rob

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, David O'Brien wrote:
> Rob Snow writes:
> > 
> > Someone reminded me today:
> > 
> > 	yes | fsck
> 
> There's also ``fsck -y /dev/foo''
> 
> -- 
> -- David	(obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)
>