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From: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith "Happy Birthday James Brown G.O.S.")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: stupid unix commands
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Date: 3 May 90 21:30:45 GMT
References: <15633@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4108@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> <1574@island.uu.net> <1990May2.170711.16545@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990May2.170711.16545@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>|> 
>|> 	yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10
>
>  Perhaps you should consider using the right tool for the job.... What
>you do here in 4 processes and a whole bunch of context switching, I can

	Yea, I know, I know, and perl is *god* too!  I appreciate that
(and do use perl).  I'm just showing an example that is likely to work
on Unix systems everywhere.  Someone else's posting of "yes | rm -i foo*"
was amusing :-)

	I'll toss out a slightly different subject:  what was the
most obfuscated line you've ever put in a shell (any type) script?

				Daniel
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