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Started by sahayman
Thu, 14 Sep 1989 20:01
Renaming "yes" to "adnauseam"
Author: sahayman
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 20:01
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 20:01
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From: Steve Hayman <sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> I do remember the reasons why "yes" was renamed, and at one point I agreed with them. But really, all the change is trying to do is protect the handful of people who might ever type "yes" on a hardcopy terminal. Those people - operators, whoever - ought to make their own alias or use a PATH that picks up a "fixed" version of yes. > Perhaps a better change would have been to make "yes" > not work if output is to a tty? There might still be reasons to make "yes" work when output is to a tty. maybe I'm testing something and need a stream of output to the screen. Who's to say? I think it would be better to leave the stock /usr/ucb/yes alone. Some people might like it the way it is.
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