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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automating Interactive script Post 302308847 by System Shock on Monday 20th of April 2009 12:04:55 PM
Old 04-20-2009
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Originally Posted by thegeek
"yes" is a Linux command everybody is suggesting you.

If you have not got yet, execute 'yes' in your terminal which will just print y indefinitely .. that is what you wanted.

yes | your-program

which will pipe the y to your-program required number of times. ??

Got it ?
Not everybody is suggesting "yes", because it wouldn't work in this particular case. If you look at the OP input, you'll notice that he needs to input different text other than just "yes"; it asks for a specific username and a password, a path. That is why I suggested expect.
 

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GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME
grub-install - install GRUB on your drive SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory --grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot sector. The grub source distribution carries this script to ease the installation of grub as a boot loader. In Suse Linux however, grub installa- tion is much better handled by Yast; use of this script is generally discouraged and therefore unsupported. Consequently, the script has been renamed to grub-install.unsupported. In order to (re-)install grub for the currently running system, simply use Yast. For an installation aiming at a differing system, the crafting of an appropriate device.map and grub shell script is strongly advised, e.g. "grub --batch --device-map=target-device.map < tar- get-grub.conf" SEE ALSO
The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub-install should give you access to the complete manual. grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) May 2005 GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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