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In Debian, we have a variable called DEBIAN_FRONTEND, which when set to noninteractive stops prompting and is useful in scripts. Do we have an equivalent in archlinux? Because, 'echo y | ' is really annoying when the script has 20 different lines

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  • what frontend are you referring to? – Fox Dec 23 '20 at 6:27
  • @Fox Umm the shell frontend – d4rk4ng31 Dec 23 '20 at 6:31
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    ... instead of echo y, consider yes – Panki Dec 23 '20 at 7:55
  • How do I make the frontend What "frontend"? "Frontend" to what end? – KamilCuk Dec 27 '20 at 14:27
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Do we have an equivalent in archlinux?

No, you need to pass --noconfirm option to pacman.

is really annoying when the script has 20 different lines

In scripts I like to "mask" the command with function:

pacman() {
   command pacman --noconfirm "$@"
}
pacman -S something
# really runs pacman --noconfirm -S something
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