Yes mam

[dos2unix]

This one is about as simple as it gets.
Recently I was cleaning up an old hard drive. I wanted to copy everything off of it before I re-formatted it.

so I used the trusty old...

cp -rvf /mnt/* /destination/directory

Because the "f" is supposed overwrite existing files, right?

Well, instead, it was asking thousands of times, "Do you want to over write existing file Y/n?".
Well after about a dozen of those, that gets old, I saw that I still had 11,735 files to go. Not good. I was going to have one tired finger
from pressing "Y" eleven thousand more times. So what do we do?

Just say yes.

yes | cp -rvf /mnt/* /destination/directory

This will pipe the "yes" answer to any commands I'm doing.

I noticed I didn't have a "no" command. But I'm not sure what I would have used it for.

 

[MikeRocor]

As silly as it might seem:

yes | tr "y" "n" |cp -rvf /mnt/* /destination/directory

or, for an abbreviated form:

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