Handling input confirmations in Linux shell scripting

Question

I\'m writing a Linux Shell Script to automate a few things I\'m doing on Ubuntu 11.04.

Basically, I\'m writing a shell script to install NGINX, MySQL, and PHP, and then

Answer 1

Usually you can call such interactive programs with an option to automatically answer yes to all questions. For instance, you can call apt-get with -y. From the man page :

-y, --yes, --assume-yes Automatic yes to prompts; assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively.