I found myself wanting to reproduce a line of input multiple times, so my first thought was:
echo line | yes --some-option | consumer to make yes read the first line of stdin and replay that, but we don't have such an option - the text to be replayed has to be passed on the command line. I ended up doing: yes "$(echo line)" | consumer but wonder if it is worth adding such an option (maybe spelled --from-file, where '--from-file=-' reads from stdin). Using xargs for the task is not ideal, unless we have a way to make xargs shut up about EPIPE: # echo line | xargs yes | head -n5 line line line line line xargs: yes: terminated by signal 13 I guess this request also interacts with the recent question on whether 'yes' falls into the category of commands that should gain support to output data with NUL separators rather than newlines. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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