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