"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:sjkpvfivljpifhnsa...@forum.dlang.org... > On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 03:30:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: >> +1, LOL. > > I just thought of a better one! > > -v > > for grep. > > grep 'some string' * > > is something I do a lot; I like that command as > generally useful. > > -v on grep inverts the match. > > Instead of showing the files with some string, it > will show the files *without* some string! > > > I have to use this one some day. Almost April!
Heh, hilarious stuff. Speaking of computer pranks, back in junior high, I was so incredibly bored in this "applied technology" class one day that I wrote a small panic DOS in QBASIC and added it to autoexec.bat. I thought that was worth being banned from the computers in that class for the rest of the semester ;) Well, at least until exams when the teacher *had* to let me back on them for, uhh, whatever it was we had to do as our final (don't recall). Heh, he was pissed. I was surprised when he told me their IT people "had to" format and reinstall the system. I had thought the big QBASIC window coming up upon boot would have been an obvious clue to just Ctrl-Break and then remove qbasic from autoexec.bat. I was thinking, "But...don't IT people know how to use computers?"