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This is the first revision: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/ccbd1d7dc5189f4637468a8136f672e60ee0e531/src/yes.c https://github.com/coreutils/coreuti

• pulse7 9y ago
  (joke) They copied the API of the main() function... :-)
• h2hn 9y ago
  And here is the madness: :) https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/35217221c211f3116f374f305654462195aa634a https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/35217221c211f3...
  • alkonaut 9y ago
    And the motivation: it's used as test inputs. Not sure I agree with completely destroying the readability of a perfectly readable file - but ok.
    • acqq 9y ago
      The motivation, as far as I see, was only that it "may be used." But see the post of belorn where he argues that the error handling seems to be good.
  • Paul-ish 9y ago
    Is the date on that accurate, did that happen in 2016? Kinda hurts the theory that they were trying to avoid Unix similarity.
    • jwilk 9y ago
      It says: Mar 9, 2015
• simias 9y ago
  One point in favor of this simple version is that it's immediately obvious that it doesn't do the same thing as the OpenBSD version. In OpenBSD `yes a b c` will only print "a" while in GNU it prints "a b c". I did not catch that when I was reading the more complicated modern version.