From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 24 12: 5:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.jeah.net (shell2.jeah.net [216.132.235.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040B614F67 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 12:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@shell.jeah.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by shell.jeah.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA36145 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:05:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:05:35 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Byrnes Message-Id: <199912242005.OAA36145@shell.jeah.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "yes" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the purpose of the "yes" command? I have not seen anything useful that uses it. I have, however, seen people abuse it.. i.e: "yes poop > your-drive-is-full" It's 700'd root right now, but that's not the point. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message