I'm often using apt-get install -y which works great.
Recently I saw a pull request where someone wanted to update apt-get update with apt-get update -y.
In my experience apt-get update doesn't prompt the user.
Is this pull request redundant or are there prompt messages that can occur in apt-get update?
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Yes, the -y option together with update is totally redundant, yet accepted due to the many powers apt and apt-get have.
To make that clear, apt-get would accept any valid global option that makes sense with the command. If you pass it anything else it would complain. (Thanks to @Braiam for pointing this out)
On a personal note, I frown on tutorials giving the advice to run an option like upgrade and so on with the -y option, because it removes a layer of reconsideration for the user. Yet it has its purpose for scripting tasks and might then mostly go along with -qq which quiets all output.
