Re: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story

Very cool story. I'd ++ if I had any left... One question, though. rm -rf? On my system it has to be rm -Rf

My own story is far less dramatic. I simply have problems with my video players. Mplayer, and Ogle (if I start it from the menu rather than from a terminal) never die cleanly. Sometimes, by the end of the day, I have 20+ processes running due to one or the other program. I whipped up a quick one-liner to seek and destroy them all.

I'm looking forward to hearing other people's stories.

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Linux, sci-fi, and Nat Torkington, all at Penguicon 3.0
perl -e 'print(map(chr,(0x4a,0x41,0x50,0x48,0xa)))'

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Re^2: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 24, 2005 at 23:19 UTC
`man pkill`? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^3: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story by wolfger (Deacon) on Jan 25, 2005 at 11:04 UTC
Oh, sure... Just make my perl skills obsolete. ;-) Thanks for the tip. I never heard of pkill before. -- Linux, sci-fi, and Nat Torkington, all at Penguicon 3.0 perl -e 'print(map(chr,(0x4a,0x41,0x50,0x48,0xa)))'	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 25, 2005 at 12:25 UTC
Take a look at the base system packages in your installation which install lots of binaries in `/bin`, `/usr/bin`, `/sbin` etc. Dig through the corresponding manpages. There are quite a few gems in there; few people know much of even the basic Unix tool set. I'm not done exploring myself. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^2: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story by insensate (Hermit) on Jan 27, 2005 at 21:01 UTC
`# uname SunOS # rm usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...` [download] cheers!	[reply] [d/l]


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