yes(1)

yes1

Be repetitively affirmative

Usage

yes [expletive]

Overview

yes outputs expletive, or, by default, “y”, forever.

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 2.1–2.4
  2. 2.5
  3. 2.6–3.3
  4. 3.4–4.1
  5. 4.2–5.2
  6. 5.3–8.0

History

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

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.