[exxo_]

This is the first revision:

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/ccbd1d7dc5189f46...

[h2hn]

And here is the madness: :)

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/35217221c211f3...

[alkonaut]

And the motivation: it's used as test inputs. Not sure I agree with completely destroying the readability of a perfectly readable file - but ok.

[acqq]

The motivation, as far as I see, was only that it "may be used."

But see the post of belorn where he argues that the error handling seems to be good.

[Paul-ish]

Is the date on that accurate, did that happen in 2016? Kinda hurts the theory that they were trying to avoid Unix similarity.

[jwilk]

It says: Mar 9, 2015

[simias]

One point in favor of this simple version is that it's immediately obvious that it doesn't do the same thing as the OpenBSD version. In OpenBSD `yes a b c` will only print "a" while in GNU it prints "a b c". I did not catch that when I was reading the more complicated modern version.

[pulse7]

(joke) They copied the API of the main() function... :-)