A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command | Matthias EndlerWhat’s the simplest Unix command you know? There’s echo, which prints a string to stdout and true, which always terminates with an exit code of 0. Among the series of simple Unix commands, there’s also yes. If you execute it without arguments, you get an infinite stream of y’s, separated by a newline: y y y y (...you get the idea) What seems to be pointless in the beginning turns out to be pretty
