From Blag Jesus Sex Machine Sent Fri, Sep 4th 1998, 15:05
From Blag Jesus Sex Machine Sent Fri, Sep 4th 1998, 15:05
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Solenoid wrote: > in unix, and windows/dos, the Perl programming language has a command like > "s/smith/jones" which is like "substitute all occurances of 'smith' with > the word 'jones'". for the sake of overt geekiness, in perl i'd do "s/smith/jones/go" the go part means it only compiles the expression once and doesn't keep checking it. but a LOT of people know a LOT more about perl than me... but i could bust out a script to do exactly what the ninjas need in less than 10 lines :) Well, maybe.. > i wonder if farmer's manual "fsck" is from the unix filesystem check > command "fsck", or do I have the wrong acronym? <---idm content I always assumed it did stand for filesystem check. It would be cool if someone did a comp and called it "tar cv . &>/compilations/volume.1 &" (remember, you have to be root to use the tape drive) I always wanted to be in a industrial band called /dev/null (actually, that would be the ULTIMATE VANITY LICENSE PLATE, that or "RM RF U") I totally freaked when I saw the COMMODORE 64 program on the back of that BOCHUM WELT cd <---idm content(?) I love geeky cds. There should be more computer dork music. sync /sbin/shutdown -h now .Bil. IAMaCOPIER