# note2: replacing echo -n "${cmd}" with `${cmd}`
# does not actually work! nor does using ${cmd}
# without the backticks work due to the way the
# for loop splits a_previous_login_history into
# words (ie splits it at each space char) - ie
# your commands are split up: ie ls *.* becomes
# two commands instead of one.On 25/5/2009, "james morris" <[email protected]> wrote: > >#!/bin/sh ># historic_loop ># a BASH microcode to print your .bash_history ># file line by line in an infinite loop. >a_previous_login_history=`cat .bash_history` >while true >do >for cmd in $a_previous_login_history >do >echo -n "${cmd} " >done >done ># note: perhaps if you want to literally repeat history ># ie re-issue all commands in your .bash_history file, ># replace echo -n "${cmd} " with `${cmd}` ># but beware to do so is probably not such a good idea. > > >On 25/5/2009, "Pall Thayer" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>And for those who don't know what an infinite loop is in programming, >>it is explained along with an example in the Microcodes primer at >>http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/MCprimer.pdf >> >> >>Pall >> >>On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM, info <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture) >>> >>> The infinite loop is the perfect form for expressing the reality of >>> contemporary existence. From the endless boom-bust cycle of capitalism >>> to the repeating right/left swings of American politics to the >>> misbehaving computer code frustrating our days, we are the society of >>> the loop. We're doomed to repeat history ad infinitum (not to mention ad >>> nauseum) with no progress nor resolve needed. These observations are >>> nothing new; how could they be? We've always been Sisyphus. >>> >>> while (history) { >>> history = true; >>> } >>> >>> >>> Come celebrate the horrific beauty of the infinite loop at "The Wheel of >>> The Devil," a one-night-only screening of historic and contemporary >>> loops at Over The Opening. Each loop screened until the audience votes >>> to move to the next. >>> >>> Artists (in no particular order): >>> JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre >>> LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris >>> Coy - Michael Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva - >>> Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael >>> Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael >>> Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - >>> Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - >>> Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith >>> jimpunk - and more... >>> >>> curated by MTAA with Ed Halter >>> presented by T.Whid of MTAA >>> >>> where: >>> Over The Opening (OTO) >>> 60 N. 6th St. 2nd Flr (btw Wythe & Kent) >>> Brooklyn, NY, 11211 (map) >>> >>> when: >>> Friday May 29th, 2009 7-10PM (one night only) >>> Doors open at 7PM, the lecture starts looping at 8PM sharp! >>> free and open to the public >>> >>> Michael Sarff (M.River) and Tim Whidden (T.Whid) formed the >>> Brooklyn-based artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented >>> artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 >>> Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters >>> Gallery, Artists Space, and Light Industry all in New York City; The >>> Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and >>> Technology in Irvine, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San >>> Francisco, CA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA. International >>> exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and >>> Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. The >>> collaboration has earned grants and awards from the Creative Capital >>> Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. >>> >>> Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City. His writing >>> has appeared in Artforum, Arthur, The Believer, Cinema Scope, >>> Kunstforum, Millennium Film Journal, Moving Image Source, Rhizome, the >>> Village Voice and elsewhere. From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and >>> oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and has organized >>> screenings and exhibitions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, >>> Cinematexas, Eyebeam, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the Museum of Modern >>> Art, and San Francisco Cinematheque. He currently teaches in the Film >>> and Electronic Arts department at Bard College, and has lectured at >>> Harvard, NYU, Yale, and other schools as well as at Art in General, >>> Aurora Picture Show, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the >>> Images Festival, the Impakt Festival, and Pacific Film Archive. His book >>> From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games was published by Thunder's >>> Mouth Press in 2006. With Andrea Grover, he is currently editing the >>> collection A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas. He is >>> a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and >>> electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. >>> >>> Over The Opening (OTO) - Once a month, the artist duo MTAA convert their >>> Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art. The >>> ongoing project, begun in October 2007, has presented work ranging from >>> group tamale production to a LAN party involving a computerized version >>> of Guy Debords 1978 "Game of War." >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> >>-- >>***************************** >>Pall Thayer >>artist >>http://www.this.is/pallit >>***************************** >> >>_______________________________________________ >>NetBehaviour mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
