15 May
1998
15 May
'98
3:04 a.m.
On 05/14/98 18:56:07 you wrote:
What, by the way, is "yes"?
YES(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual YES(1)
[etc.]
An old UNIX hand once told me yes was originally "designed" for use with the fsck -y option. Whether or not this was true, I don't know.
Other things to note - on some systems it's still a C program, on others it's just a shell script. Also, I think some shells have "yes" built-in now. So this can also account for performance differences between OSes.
Bruce