YES(1) General Commands Manual YES(1) NAME yes – be repetitively affirmative SYNOPSIS yes [expletive] DESCRIPTION The yes utility outputs expletive, or, by default, “y”, forever. SEE ALSO jot(1), seq(1) HISTORY The yes command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. macOS 15.2 June 4, 2014 macOS 15.2