On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not really all that useful, but worth knowing about... please note that > there is NOT a "no" command or a "maybe" command. > > Andy > > YES(1) User Commands > YES(1) > > NAME > yes - output a string repeatedly until killed > > SYNOPSIS > yes [STRING]... > yes OPTION > > DESCRIPTION > Repeatedly output a line with all specified STRING(s), or `y'. > > --help display this help and exit > > --version > output version information and exit > > AUTHOR > Written by David MacKenzie. > > REPORTING BUGS > Report bugs to <bug-coreut...@gnu.org>. > > COPYRIGHT > Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under > the > terms of the GNU General Public > License > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to > the > extent permitted by law. > > SEE ALSO > The full documentation for yes is maintained as a Texinfo manual. > If > the info and yes programs are properly installed at your site, the > com- > mand > > info yes > > -- >
Does anybody have a real-life usage example? I've seen this command but never found anything for it to do. Maybe generate a large text file? $ time yes this is large > foo.txt ^C real 0m0.988s user 0m0.780s sys 0m0.192s $ wc -l foo.txt 5811053 foo.txt $ ls -lh foo.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 donalddelp donalddelp 78M 2009-11-18 10:20 foo.txt Why do you need such a text file? Maybe to test your compression software on text with high redundancy? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=.
