yes(1)

yes1

Be repetitively affirmative

Usage

yes [expletive ...]

Overview

The yes utility outputs expletive, or, by default, “y”, forever. If multiple arguments are given, they are concatenated into a single space-separated string.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 39 times.

  1. 2.0.5–3.5.1
  2. 4.0–4.2
  3. 4.3
  4. 4.4–4.6.2
  5. 4.7–4.11
  6. 5.0–6.3
  7. 6.4
  8. 7.0
  9. 7.1
  10. 7.2
  11. 7.3
  12. 7.4
  13. 8.0
  14. 8.1
  15. 8.2
  16. 8.3
  17. 8.4
  18. 9.0
  19. 9.1
  20. 9.2
  21. 9.3
  22. 10.0
  23. 10.1
  24. 10.2
  25. 10.3
  26. 10.4
  27. 11.0
  28. 11.1
  29. 11.2
  30. 11.3
  31. 11.4
  32. 12.0
  33. 12.1
  34. 12.2
  35. 12.3
  36. 12.4
  37. 13.0–13.2
  38. 13.3–14.5
  39. 15.0
  40. 15.1–16.0

History

The yes command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.