https://www.alexanderjunge.net/tags/true/ Recent content in True on Alexander Junge's website Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/til-yes/ Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/til-yes/ Today (well, earlier this week but let’s not be picky here) I learned about the Unix core utility yes. It works like this: $ yes y y y # [ad infinitum until stopped] $ yes no no no no # [ad infinitum until stopped] As you can see, yes either prints y\n until stopped or whatever string you pass it followed by a newline, again continuing until the process is killed.