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YES(1) General Commands Manual YES(1)

NAME

yes - Repeatedly display a line with STRING (or 'y')

SYNOPSIS

yes [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [STRING]

DESCRIPTION

Repeatedly display a line with STRING (or 'y')

OPTIONS

Print help
Print version
[STRING] [default: y]

VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0

EXAMPLES

Repeatedly output `y`:

yes

Repeatedly output a specified value:

yes value

Accept everything prompted by the `apt-get` command:

yes | sudo apt-get install program

Repeatedly output a newline to always accept the default option of a prompt:

yes ''

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.

2026-06-04