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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by grymoire1 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:04AM (#32178338)
If you ever had to repair a disk using fsck when it had hundreds of errors, you would understand why yes(1) was created.
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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by Anunayj on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:44AM (#32180013)
Wouldn't it be better to use dd with something like /dev/zeros instead?
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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by meatmanek on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:44PM (#32183180)
The idea is that you pipe `yes | fsck` to answer yes to all questions.
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