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[–] 78 points 3 years ago (3 children)

He says, while using a command that brings a little convenience at the price of control and security...

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I love yes it is an amazing tool. I never had an actual use for it since any tool I might want to use it on (like apt) already has some kind of command line switch for it already

    But I just once in a while stumble across yes again and run it for half a minute and have a chuckle.

    Just like every time I read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Aw man that thing was so useful during University. The assignment submission tool required saying yes a million times as it explain how the whole thing worked for every submission.

    Piping yes into it was so much faster.

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