This question concerns the yes command found in UNIX and Linux machines: Basically, what is the point (if any) and history of this tool? Are there practical applications for it? Can an example be shown where it is useful in a script or chained (via pipe or redirect) with another tool?  The manpage is below:  YES(1)                    BSD General Commands Manual                   YES(1)  NAME      yes -- be repetitively affirmative  SYNOPSIS      yes [expletive]  DESCRIPTION      yes outputs expletive, or, by default, ``y'', forever.  HISTORY      The yes command appeared in 4.0BSD.  4th Berkeley Distribution        June 6, 1993        4th Berkeley Distribution   Sample output:  $ yes why why why why why ^Cwhy
There is a yes command in unix/linux which basically infinitely prints y to the stdout. What is the point of it, and how is it useful?
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So, to prove $f$ is differentiable at the origin, I have to show that   $\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)} \dfrac{|f(x,y)-(f(0,0)+&lt;\nabla f(0,0),(x,y)&gt;)|}{\|(x,y)\|}=0$ But $\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)} \dfrac{|f(x,y)-(f(0,0)+&lt;\nabla f(0,0),(x,y)&gt;)|}{\|(x,y)\|}$ equals  $\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)} \dfrac{|(x^2+y^2)\sin(\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}})-(x+y)|}{\|(x,y)\|}$. I don't know how to show this limit equals $0$.  For the second part (I've only analyzed $\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}$ since both cases are the same), what I did was try to show that $\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)} \dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}(x,y) \neq \dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}(0,0)$   I thought of considering the curve $\phi(t)=(t,0)$, so   $\lim_{t \to 0} (f\circ \phi)(t)=\lim_{t \to 0} 2t\sin(|t|^{-1})-\dfrac{t\cos(|t|^{-1})}{|t|^{-1}}$. But $\lim_{t \to 0^{+}} \dfrac{t\cos(|t|^{-1})}{|t|^{-1}}=\lim_{t \to 0^{+}} \cos(\dfrac{1}{t})$ and this limit doesn't exist, so the original limit doesn't exist. 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