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YES(1)								   User Commands							    YES(1)

NAME
yes - output a string repeatedly until killed SYNOPSIS
yes [STRING]... yes OPTION DESCRIPTION
Repeatedly output a line with all specified STRING(s), or `y'. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report yes bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report yes translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for yes is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and yes programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'yes invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 YES(1)

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ARCH(1) 							   User Commands							   ARCH(1)

NAME
arch - print machine hardware name (same as uname -m) SYNOPSIS
arch [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Print machine architecture. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Karel Zak. REPORTING BUGS
Report arch bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report arch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
uname(1), uname(2) The full documentation for arch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and arch programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'arch invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.13 September 2011 ARCH(1)
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