YES(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
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✨ YES(1) — the yes girlie manual ✨

okay bestie so this is YES(1), from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's the simplest little icon in your whole toolbox and I'm obsessed with her 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

yes — Repeatedly display a line with STRING (or 'y')

no cap, that's the WHOLE job. she says one thing forever. main character energy but make it a loop 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

yes [STRING]...

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Repeatedly display a line with STRING (or 'y')

literally that's it. she will not stop. she's not tired. she's never tired. she's giving infinite affirmation 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — Print help. (she's helpful when you ask nicely ✨)
  • -V, --version — Print version. (her little birth chart 🎀)
  • [STRING] [default: y] — the thing she yells over and over. if you don't give her one, she defaults to y 💖

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

okay so here's where she SHINES, come on:

Repeatedly output y:

yes

Repeatedly output a specified value:

yes value

Accept everything prompted by the apt-get command:

yes | sudo apt-get install program

Repeatedly output a newline to always accept the default option of a prompt:

yes ''
⭐ The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.

💜 bye bestie 💜

that's the page! it's from uutils coreutils version 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-25, and honestly she ate and left no crumbs — no notes, periodt ✨🧚🌸

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