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1.1 ! root 1: ! 2: ! 3: yes Command yes ! 4: ! 5: ! 6: ! 7: ! 8: Print infinitely many responses ! 9: ! 10: yyeess [ _a_n_s_w_e_r ] ! 11: ! 12: With no argument, yes prints an arbitrary number of lines consis- ! 13: ting solely of `y'. If the optional answer is used, then yes ! 14: produces lines containing the answer instead. ! 15: ! 16: ***** Example ***** ! 17: ! 18: The following example prints the string ``foo'' forever. ! 19: ! 20: ! 21: yes foo ! 22: ! 23: ! 24: ***** See Also ***** ! 25: ! 26: commands ! 27: ! 28: ***** Notes ***** ! 29: ! 30: yes is useful for overwriting the contents of disks, for reasons ! 31: of security; simply redirect its output to the name of the device ! 32: that you wish to overwrite. ! 33: ! 34: ! 35: ! 36: ! 37: ! 38: ! 39: ! 40: ! 41: ! 42: ! 43: ! 44: ! 45: ! 46: ! 47: ! 48: ! 49: ! 50: ! 51: ! 52: ! 53: ! 54: ! 55: ! 56: ! 57: ! 58: ! 59: ! 60: ! 61: ! 62: ! 63: ! 64: COHERENT Lexicon Page 1 ! 65: ! 66:
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