.TH YES 1 "GNU Shell Utilities" "FSF" \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
yes \- output a string repeatedly until killed
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B yes
[string...]
.br
.B yes
{\-\-help,\-\-version}
.SH DESCRIPTION
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or incomplete.  The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.
.PP
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
.BR yes .
.B yes
prints the command line arguments, separated by spaces and followed by
a newline, forever until it is killed.  If no arguments are given, it
prints `y' followed by a newline forever until killed.
.SS OPTIONS
When GNU
.B yes
is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:
.TP
.I "\-\-help"
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
.TP
.I "\-\-version"
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.