Unix’s most pointless yet hilarious command is probably yes. Its sole purpose: repeatedly output whatever you feed it (defaulting to “y”) until you beg for mercy (usually via Ctrl-C). Why create something so absurd? Admins traditionally piped yes into stubborn, interactive commands to auto-answer prompts, or flood input buffers to test stability. Nowadays, it mostly serves as a Unix inside joke—a command capturing sysadmin frustration, stubbornness, and sarcastic rage, forever repeating itself until manually silenced.
