[ale] re: running fdisk automatically

[Dan Newcombe]

> I tried this, and I got endless ^M's (it seemed like), the fdisk prompt
> scrolled endlessly.
> > <newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu> wrote:
> > > Just put together a list of commands and use it as standard input.
> > > echo p^Mq^M |fdisk
> > > will work to print a partition table and quit.

Well, here's what I'm using
root at mordor~$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1)
root at mordor~$ fdisk -v
fdisk v2.1 (>4GB)
root at mordor~$ /bin/echo --version
echo - GNU sh-utils 1.12

Though I usually just use the built-in shell version of echo, the other
one worked just fine as well.

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Dan Newcombe                                      newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu
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