Gnu/coreutils/yes-invocation
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15.3 yes
: Print a string until interrupted
yes
prints the command line arguments, separated by spaces and
followed by a newline, forever until it is killed. If no arguments are
given, it prints ‘y
’ followed by a newline forever until killed.
Upon a write error, yes
exits with status ‘1
’.
The only options are a lone --help
or --version
.
To output an argument that begins with
‘-
’, precede it with --
, e.g., ‘yes -- --help
’.
See Common options.