Answering Yes/No shell prompt on notebook

Question

I'm running a shell execute command in a notebook (Google Collaboratory), and such command prompts me to give a yes/no answer. How can I respond to this prompt shell message within the notebook?

Answer 1

Update: Colab now supports input prompts, so you should see these immediately, e.g.,

Old answer: A typical pattern is to run the command without prompts, if it has such an option. For example, for installation using apt, provide the option -y.

If no such option exists, you can do something like piping yes to the program like so: yes | programThatHasConfirmationPrompts.