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echo Y |

CharlesYeung — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:44:43 GMT

Hi,

Anyone knows how to convert "echo Y |" dos command in PowerShell?

Thanks

Charles

echo Y |

GlennSizemore — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:39:02 GMT

Without knowing what your trying to do, have you tried {'y' | your command.exe}. Without detailes it's hard to telll why the pipline isn't working. If you tell us what your trying to do we can explore other options.

~Glenn

echo Y |

CharlesYeung — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:32:03 GMT

Hi Glenn,

I am new to PowerShell.. What I am trying to do is piping Echo Y | to Remove-NaSnapshot..

The goal is to delete orphaned snapshot(s) from all the iSCSI volumes that start with {

Example: {93101811-e57c-4627-939a-46580448f181}

PS C:\Windows\system32> $VOLList = Get-NaVol

PS C:\Windows\system32> $myvar=”{*”

PS C:\Windows\system32> ForEach ($_.Name in $VOList) {Get-NaSnapshot $_.Name $myvar | Remove-NaSnapshot | write-host "Y"}

Delete snapshot

Are you sure you want to delete snapshot {93101811-e57c-4627-939a-46580448f181} from volume FFXCMGC01_SQL_DB?

[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?]

PS C:\Windows\system32>>> ForEach ($_.Name in $VOLList) {Get-NaSnapshot $_.Name $myvar | Remove-NaSnapshot | echo Y}

Delete snapshot

Are you sure you want to delete snapshot {93101811-e57c-4627-939a-46580448f181} from volume FFXCMGC01_SQL_DB?

[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): y

Delete snapshot

Are you sure you want to delete snapshot {9b98763a-3e0a-4fd4-b40a-5129b787dd88} from volume FFXCMGC01_SQL_DB?

[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): y

Thanks

Charles

Re: echo Y |

timothyn — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:49:16 GMT

Hi Charles,

Great question! Most PowerShell cmdlets (not just the toolkit) that prompt the user for confirmation have a "-Confirm" switch. You can try something like this:

Get-NaVol | Get-NaSnapshot -SnapName "{*" | Remove-NaSnapshot -Confirm

Cheers,

Eric

Re: echo Y |

beam — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:13:57 GMT

Just to clarify, if you want to suppress the confirmation, you would use "-Confirm:$false":

Remove-NaSnapshot $volName $snapName -Confirm:$false

You can also look into the $ConfirmPreference variable, which will control the confirmation prompt for all cmdlets. The help topic about_Preference_Variables contains information about the $ConfirmPreference variable:

help about_Preference_Variables

Hope that helps!

-Steven

Re: echo Y |

GlennSizemore — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:18:48 GMT

Ohh Eric so close

Charles,

PowerShell uses a series of common parameters to universally controll the behavior of all cmdlet. Any cmdlet that prompts for confirmation is doing so by upgrading the -confirm switch. You can inturn either, make any command prompt by adding the confirm switch as Eric did. Or you can override it by supplying a negetive confirm value.

Get-NaVol | Get-NaSnapshot -SnapName "{*"| Remove-NaSnapShot -confirm:$false

for more information on how this all works just type "help about_commonparameters" from any powershell prompt.

Hope that helps,

~Glenn

echo Y |

CharlesYeung — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:46:27 GMT

Thank You All (Glenn, Eric, and Beam)..

It is so amaze how powershell can do . It turns my 45+ lines dos command into just 3 statements

Charles