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Asked by javiercmh

When I type yes and I press "Intro" (not in a confirmation), the terminal print infinite "y".
(y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y
 y...)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 17 20:12:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/japa
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux japa 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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This question was originally filed as bug #203363.

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javiercmh (javiercarrascomelo) said : 		#1
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#2

please raise your questions into the support tracker, thanks in advance.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Hello

Yes is a linux command.....

yes is a command that echoes yes..

(I had the same doubt while testing out ubuntu hardy now)

If you actually figure out the process... it will be something like this

yes = echo "yes" && repeat

and the corresponding source would be:

 if [ 1 = 1 ] ; then echo yes ; fi

Press cntrl+c to stop the command..

More info:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_yes.htm

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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