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15.3 ‘yes’: Print a string until interrupted
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‘yes’ prints the command line arguments, separated by spaces and
followed by a newline, forever until it is killed.  If no arguments are
given, it prints ‘y’ followed by a newline forever until killed.

   Upon a write error, ‘yes’ exits with status ‘1’.

   The only options are a lone ‘--help’ or ‘--version’.  To output an
argument that begins with ‘-’, precede it with ‘--’, e.g., ‘yes --
--help’.  *Note Common options::.