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Re: [edlug] Ubuntu yes Command

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Subject: Re: [edlug] Ubuntu yes Command
From: Dick Middleton <dick@xxx.xxx.xxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:33 +0000
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Bruce Cran wrote:

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

You too can be a complete dork. Try doing yes `yes`. Used all the memory on my system then got canned by system. It recovered but took 10mins.

LOL

It seems to be a bash builtin BTW.

Dick
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- Re: [edlug] Ubuntu yes Command
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- Re: [edlug] Ubuntu yes Command
  - From: Bruce Cran

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