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yes: output a line again and again.

Synopsis

yes [string…]

Description

yes writes its arguments, joined by spaces, as a line, again and again, until a write fails (for instance when the reader of its pipe is gone, which also sends it SIGPIPE). With no arguments the line is y.

Lines are written many at a time, about 4096 bytes in each write, as GNU yes does.

Exit status

1 when a write fails (it never ends on its own).

Examples

yes | head -n 3
yes no | head -n 2

See also

head(1), sh(1)