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From: "MET" <met@uberstats.com>
To: "'freebsd-questions-en'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Auto Answering a Command Prompt || Not best the best phrase
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:59:17 -0400
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The host I'm using has a little built in system to auto ask the user (no
matter what) if they want to overwrite (y/n) the file they're trying to
save or archive/compress in this case.  So every time I run my script is
asks me a question.  I need the script to run as a Cronjob at a
ridiculous time in the morning by itself.  So I'm trying to force the
'yes' down its throat, but I don't know how.  Here's my current
compression line:

DATE=`date +%m-%d-%Y`;
ARCHIVED="Gunks_Ads-$DATE.tar.bz2";
tar cjf ../backups/$ARCHIVED ../backups/Gunks_Ads.txt;

So...how do I stuff a 'yes' down its throat after the last command
above?


~ Matthew


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