fsck

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "tc" == tony chamberlain <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com> writes:

tc> so he ran fsck and it said something like

tc>  restore filesystem 1#

That's back to the command prompt.

tc> I told him to type y. Now his screen output it just

tc> y y y y y y y y

Well, the "yes" command exists on pretty much all systems and just
repeatedly outputs either 'y' or the string you give it.  So if he
typed "yes" then you'd get an infinite number of lines containing 'y'
spewed to the screen.

The intent of the 'yes' command is to pipe to something which prompts
for input.  It just answers 'y' to every such prompt.

 - J<