Ever feel like you are repeating yourself? Well with yes you can type a string only once and it will repeat; over and over and over and over and over again.
Example:
[[email protected] tmp]$ yes "yes will print repeated text"
yes will print repeated text
yes will print repeated text
yes will print repeated text
yes will print repeated text
yes will print repeated text
So why would you want a command that prints text repeatedly? Ever run into situations like this?
[[email protected] somedir]$ rm -i *.txt
rm: remove regular empty file `100.txt'? y
rm: remove regular empty file `10.txt'?
While rm has a -f flag that will not ask you if you want to remove the file there are other commands/scripts that do not.
[[email protected] somedir]$ ls | wc -l
100
[[email protected] somedir]$ yes y | rm -i *.txt
**Output Truncated**
[[email protected] somedir]$ ls | wc -l
0
Recently Benjamin published his first book; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide. In addition to writing, he has several Open Source projects focused on making Ops easier. These projects include Automatron, a project enabling auto-healing infrastructure for the masses.
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