# Automating juliaup installation - workarounds?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automating-juliaup-installation-workarounds/85816
**Category:** Tooling
**Tags:** juliaup
**Created:** [August 16, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automating-juliaup-installation-workarounds/85816 "2022-08-16T10:30:32Z")
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Has anyone found a way to work around the need to press ENTER to install juliaup (on linux)?

I’m aware that there have been related questions:

- [Automating juliaup installation - #2 by StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automating-juliaup-installation/81440/2)
- [juliaup-init brings up interactive prompt when called with -y flag · Issue #300 · JuliaLang/juliaup · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup/issues/300)

and that it’s a tracked FR:

- [Command line args for juliainstaller · Issue #218 · JuliaLang/juliaup · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup/issues/218)

But while it’s being developed, has anyone found a workaround on linux?

Usually, you can skip the prompts by sending new lines (echo | command or echo -ne ‘\n’ ), by using yes/expect or piping with cat, but all my attempts have failed to get me through the install automatically. Some examples:

- [shell - Simulating ENTER keypress in bash script - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6264596/simulating-enter-keypress-in-bash-script)
- [shell - Pipe input into a script - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19408649/pipe-input-into-a-script)