Re: sed/awk/fmt question hijacked from Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-09 Thread Brian Wells
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 22:14 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Spiro Harvey wrote: Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs quote emails with a preceding character? awk '{print $0}' filename

Re: sed/awk/fmt question hijacked from Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-09 Thread Brian Wells
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 20:09 -0700, Brian Wells wrote: [...] You could have done sed -e /.gconf/d script | sed -e /.java/d script Oops. I forgot that this will try to read and write script at the same time. Won't work. But you can still link together many commands, so long as you don't

Re: rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-11 Thread Brian Wells
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 02:21 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 10, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Brian Wells wrote: Hi. I'm using svn-fast-backup (in the subversion-tools package) to make rsync backups of my subversion repository. The place I'm backing up to is on an ext3-formatted usb flash

Re: rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-11 Thread Brian Wells
Thanks to Shachar Or and Ted Hilts for the suggestions, I might try them sometime (particularly the nested filesystem idea, that's very clever :) My main reply, below, is to Rick. On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 18:33 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Brian Wells wrote: I'm

rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-10 Thread Brian Wells
Hi. I'm using svn-fast-backup (in the subversion-tools package) to make rsync backups of my subversion repository. The place I'm backing up to is on an ext3-formatted usb flash drive, and I'm wondering if this is a wise thing to do. I know that flash drive blocks wear out after a certain number

Re: how to install flash plugin for iceweasel on leny amd64?

2008-06-30 Thread Brian Wells
- - Brian Wells And now for something completely off-topic: I'm sorry if the correct way of doing things offends you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to install flash plugin for iceweasel on leny amd64?

2008-06-30 Thread Brian Wells
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 21:54 -0700, Brian Wells wrote: Dear Star Liu, This is top posting. It means writing your reply *above* what you are replying to, instead of *below*. People are asking you to stop doing that; finding out how to turn off HTML mail *does* depend on which e-mail provider

moon-lander 1:1.0-3 goes zombie (debian etch)

2008-06-09 Thread Brian Wells
debian-user post. - Brian Wells And now for something completely off-topic: I think your opinions are reasonable, except for the one about my mental instability. -- Psychology Professor, Farifield University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: moon-lander 1:1.0-3 goes zombie (debian etch)

2008-06-09 Thread Brian Wells
configure debian so that it can send e-mail automatically? - Brian Wells And now for something completely off-topic: Apply only to affected area. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]