the "yes" comand

[Kurt Buff]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:06, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
<claudiu.vasadi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean, what's the
> sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it kind of
> silly If you ask me.

But, incredibly useful if you actually write shell scripts - many
programs want a 'y' for input from the stdin, and this will do that
for you.

Kurt