01 May 2004

Geek humour via Slashdot...

look; gawk; talk; date; wine; unzip; strip; touch; finger; head; mount; fsck; more; yes; spray; umount; sleep; leave

(all are valid UNIX commands. For the zealots/Solaris heads (ahem Chris), yes I know it doesn’t work. It’s for those times when you are off-line...and you have a partner....)

I had to cackle at a follow up though...

“The only problem with you signature is that it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. If one fails you don’t want to do the rest. that would be very bad. you want to use && instead of ;”

2 comments:

cubziz said...

But using && would just mean that it all happened at the same time.

Can you say Premature Process Completion? *giggle*

I still think that you should use a pipe somewhere in there. Or at least input/output. ;) And never forget that 2>/dev/null

cpj said...

I think head should always be followed by tail. :)

And there are those times when I'd replace "leave" with "more".