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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by dncornholio on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:18AM (#32178433)
> And then you have a possibly confusing situation where you have two programs that do essentially the same thing

My point is, I'd never thought of using yes for this purpose. So in this case, you could make a command called 'outputsomethingfast' and you could make a command called yes, that internally calls 'outputsomethingfast --output=yes' or something like that.

To me this is way more logical, and more in line with the Linux philosophy, right?

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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by jraph on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:05AM (#32178837)
I guess. I don't like the name "yes" and I think we would have been better off with a more general name since the command is general, but now it's there, so…

However, this is independent from this optimization, "yes" already had this feature of outputting anything, I think?

But I expect this kind of accident to happen in any working system that has been long enough. This seems unavoidable. So we'd better put up with this kind of mess probably.

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