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Reputation: 497

How do I automatically answer "yes" to a prompt in Powershell?

How can I input "yes" as an answer to an interactive question in a PowerShell session? I know, in Bash, Yes is the tool to answer "yes" on the prompt. In my situation, I can't suppress the prompt.

The script I'm running stops at

Please reply "yes" if you want to continue:

How powershell can run the script and "answer" yes when pompted?

Upvotes: 47

Views: 151139

Answers (14)

Lukas adamczewski
Lukas adamczewski

Reputation: 27

-Confirm:$false - This one is working just fine.

Upvotes: 0

Ted T
Ted T

Reputation: 1

The Universally correct answer is:

  1. Command, i.e.: Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
  2. ECHO 'Y'

BTW, for that command all other solutions fail and if you think about it logically you will know this is the correct answer. Of course, edit the 'Y' on a per command basis; some might like y, others yes, t, T, True etc...

Upvotes: -1

Guest87
Guest87

Reputation: 11

Instead of putting the echo command in the front, (which will just echo all following inputs, or throw an error about the pipe) I put it at the end and that worked.

Install-Module -Name DisplaySettings | ECHO Y

Upvotes: 1

Dyllbert
Dyllbert

Reputation: 21

I had a similar problem but it wasn't just a yes/no option. I had some scripts that prompted for a choice of multiple options and I wanted to include them in some automated scripts. The prompts were something like this:

Select Option
What option do you want to use:
[A] Option A  [B] Option B  [C] Option C  [?] Help (default is "A"):

I found that this worked:

Echo A | powershell.exe ./script.ps1

Echo is simply an alias for 'Write-Output'. If there were more than one prompt, I could simply separate the inputs with a space like:

Echo A F G

I don't know why I needed to include the powershell.exe instead of just passing in the echo into the script.

Upvotes: 2

Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson

Reputation: 1

Disable-NetAdapter -name "Wi-Fi" -Confirm:$false

This worked for me in this scenario with PowerShell.

Upvotes: 0

Karson
Karson

Reputation: 459

For Azure CLI commands --yes is often an option.

Upvotes: 0

PDRASS
PDRASS

Reputation: 1

This worked for me when installing something from an "untrusted source":

ECHO Y | powershell Install-Module -Name PSWindowsUpdate | ECHO Y

I was trying to programmatically install the Windows Update powershell tool set :)

Upvotes: 0

Sir Will
Sir Will

Reputation: 1

I had the same issue trying to use:

net use * /delete

It always prompeted me for a Y/N and tried the solutions in here but none worked, so I'm reporting what worked for me:

net use * /delete /y

Maybe every command has a silent confirmation.

Upvotes: -1

Blake Drumm
Blake Drumm

Reputation: 165

The following Powershell worked for me:

Write-Output 'Y' | .\plink.exe <ip_address> -l <username> -pw <password>

This will output the 'Y' character to the next pipeline object.

Upvotes: -2

AJain2810
AJain2810

Reputation: 435

I was also having the same issue. The solutions tried by me included:

  • ECHO 'Y' |
  • Command-Name -Force
  • $ConfirmPreference = 'None'

However, none of them seemed to do the trick.

What finally solved the problem was:

Powershell-Cmdlet -Confirm:$false

It suppresses all confirmation prompts for the duration of the command and the command would be processed without any confirmation.

Upvotes: 27

user13126973
user13126973

Reputation: 1

I was trying to kill a pesky startup program and found that the Stop-Process and / or the program would not accept a piped input (no Echo Y | for me!) but I changed JPs answer a little bit: Stop-Process -name [program.name] -Force ; ran as administrator and it worked like a charm.

Upvotes: -2

Roy
Roy

Reputation: 211

Inspired by other answers, here is my example:

ECHO Y | powershell Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

Upvotes: 13

Dongminator
Dongminator

Reputation: 835

Using ECHO worked for me. I am running RSKeyMgmt.exe in my Powershell script and it prompted Yes(Y)/ No(N). So when I do

ECHO Y | RSKeyMgmt.exe...

It did not prompt the question and the command was executed correctly.

So I think ECHO 'someoption' should work for other cases too.

Upvotes: 24

JPBlanc
JPBlanc

Reputation: 72630

You can test these old fashion ways :

Cmd /c "GpUpdate.exe /FORCE <C:\temp\response.txt"

ECHO 'Y' | GpUpdate.exe /FORCE

Get-Content "C:\temp\response.txt" | GpUpdate.exe /FORCE

Upvotes: 9

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