yes - Generate repetitive output

Overview

Rust reimplementation of Unix Version 7 yes program.

• Program yes sends infinite repetitive string output to stdout.
• Default output is 'y' for variant yes and 'n' for variant no.
• User can supply own string to repeat.
• Newline is added CRLF on Windows, LF on other systems.
• -n switch supresses appending LF.
• For performace reasons string is repeated first into 8K buffer, then buffer is sent to stdout.

Features

• Minimal supported Rust version 1.56. Entire 2021 Rust edition is supported.

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