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Disappointingly, this list treats "yes" like a toy that just prints things over and over, and doesn't mention actual useful uses for "yes", like accepting all d

Disappointingly, this list treats "yes" like a toy that just prints things over and over, and doesn't mention actual useful uses for "yes", like accepting all defaults without having to press enter. Practical example: when you are doing "make oldconfig" on the kernel, and you don't care about all those questions: yes "" | make oldconfig Or, if you prefer answering no instead: yes "n" | yourcommand Also, the author refers to watch as a "supervisor" ("supervise command" - his words). That is bad terminology. Process supervision has well defined meaning in this context, and watch isn't even close to doing it. Examples of actual supervisors are supervisord, runit, monit, s6, and of course systemd (which also does service management and, er, too much other stuff, honestly).

skocznymroczny 9y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't work when trying to connect via ssh and warning about unknown key pops up.
- hnlmorg 9y ago
  That is intentional behavior on the part of `ssh`. You can still disable that prompt within `ssh` (though it's not recommended): ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no 192.168.0.100 ...or by adding rules in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config Host 192.168.0.* StrictHostKeyChecking no
feelin_googley 9y ago
"...("supervise command" - his words). That is bad terminology." "Examples of actual supervisors are..." 1999-2001 http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/supervise.html http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/supervise.html runit and s6 are copies of daemontools. Otherwise I liked your comment about use of yes.
tych0 9y ago
The kernel also recently (4.8-ish?) introduce an `olddefconfig` command, so you don't have to mess around with yes.