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0 pointsmsm_1y ago0 comments

Gnu yes is actually pretty bloated. It's 130 lines of code for something so trivial [1]! ;)

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c

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yes(1) is the standard unix way of generating repeated data. It's good to do this as quickly as possible. I really don't understand why so many get annoyed with this code. 130 lines isn't that complicated in the scheme of things.

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0 pointsmsm_1y ago0 comments

Gnu yes is actually pretty bloated. It's 130 lines of code for something so trivial [1]! ;)

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c

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pixelbeat1y ago

yes(1) is the standard unix way of generating repeated data. It's good to do this as quickly as possible. I really don't understand why so many get annoyed with this code. 130 lines isn't that complicated in the scheme of things.

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