solved How to send yes/no with dialog box in bash shell

[kimwida]

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Hi.

I am digging many things with armbian so I install fresh armbian and many applications so many times.

So I am making a long script to install many applications and edit many configuration.

When it asked "Yes/On" on text prompt, I use "#echo yes | apt install vim". It works well.

But when I install samba, it ask text prompt "yes/no" at first and then with dialog box "yes/no".

So I tried "#echo yes | echo no | apt install samba". But it doesn't work.

How can I send "yes/no" to dialog box in bash shell??

 

[Werner]

Seems to be more a userspace issue, therefore moved to p2p.

[guidol]

5 hours ago, kimwida said:

When it asked "Yes/On" on text prompt, I use "#echo yes | apt install vim". It works well.

But when I install samba, it ask text prompt "yes/no" at first and then with dialog box "yes/no".

So I tried "#echo yes | echo no | apt install samba". But it doesn't work.

How can I send "yes/no" to dialog box in bash shell??

 

 

I dont know if it works for a samba-dialog-box, but you could try the following options with apt-get (not only apt):
 

root@npi-neo2-22(192.168.6.22):~# man apt-get|grep yes
       -y, --yes, --assume-yes
           Automatic yes to prompts; assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively. If an
           Force yes; this is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue without prompting if it is
           Force yes; this is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue without prompting if it is
       --force-yes
           Force yes; this is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue without prompting if it is
           force-yes can potentially destroy your system! Configuration Item: APT::Get::force-yes. This is
           --assume-yes; where --assume-yes will answer yes to any prompt, --trivial-only will answer no.

So without echo you could try

apt-get install vim -y

or

apt-get install vim --force-yes

 

[kimwida]

Sadly, I have to choose "yes" at first and then "no".

Now I have to wait and hit "Enter" for samba install.

But it saves a lot of time for me.

 

Anyway thank you, I solved a lot of problems from your replies.