On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:57:20 +0000
Lysimachos Zografos <lzografos@xxx.xxx.xxx> wrote:
> AFAIK yes is an old-ish command to be used via pipping in
> interactive command line programs that ask yes/no all the time.
It looks like it got introduced in 1979
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX/32V
YES(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual
YES(1)
NAME
yes -- be repetitively affirmative
SYNOPSIS
yes [expletive]
DESCRIPTION
The yes utility outputs expletive, or, by default, ``y'', forever.
HISTORY
The yes command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
FreeBSD 7.2 June 6,
1993 FreeBSD 7.2
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