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Date:      Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:15:35 -0800
From:      Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
To:        "Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin" <claudiu.vasadi@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: the "yes" comand
Message-ID:  <a9f4a3860903041615g40627c32t8d965df823b85918@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:06, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
<claudiu.vasadi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean, what's the
> sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it kind of
> silly If you ask me.

But, incredibly useful if you actually write shell scripts - many
programs want a 'y' for input from the stdin, and this will do that
for you.

Kurt



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