YES
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: GNU Shell Utilities
NAME
yes - output a string repeatedly until killed
SYNOPSIS
yes
[string...]
yes
{--help,--version}
DESCRIPTION
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate
or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
yes.
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.
OPTIONS
When GNU
yes
is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.