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in reply to 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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