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rm
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*BUDUM CH!*

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the thread where we find out where Jonathan Williams lives and go round there and kill him.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all about mv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Do things like perl and emacs count as commands?

Search: grep, tar, ssh, alias, sed.
Destroy: dd, fsck, fdisk, alias.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

search: man, less, time, su

detroy: anything to do with file flags

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

destroy: date. i can never remember the bloody format. search: ntpdate, cos you don't *have* to remember the format!

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: ssh, apachectl, chown, sudo, man, l
Destroy: Top, because i's taken to saying "top: kvm_nlist:" instead of WERKING.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

destroy:
join
cut (limited to one character delimiters??)
tcsh
csh
pdksh
emacs
lynx
pico
chattr (oh man i hate that immutable bit)
xargs (no good way to escape characters)

search:
screen
vim
w3m

caitlin: +1000

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

destroy:
vt-is-UTF8 - this locked up my box when i accidentally ran it

search:
make

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Search! Search! Search! Search!: renice.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

destroy:
emacs
search:
vim

Oh Jesus Christ, I'd forgotten that there was a reason we don't do this.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

destroy:
xemacs
netscape

search:
galeon
renice ++++ (very handy when working with 200+ megabyte audio files)
cp
rm
NETHACK

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Patently I am in the minority. I shall just go off and quietlt kill myself.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

search: galeon, definitely

search: angband, cos it's great
destroy: angband, cos I HATE spending weeks playing it and then suddenly getting killed by a herd of creatures that shouldn't be anywhere NEAR the level I'm on.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Uptime REPRAZENT:
5:32PM up 16 days, 22:44, 7 users, load averages: 3.71, 3.24, 3.05

(ie since the day I got it back from being repaired)

― Graham (graham), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

12:35:07 up 11 days, 3:23, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.00

Rebooted because the nic drivers were going nuts

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

search: bc, cal

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: apocopatapetl, grebt, bangb*s, ckcfrmr
Destroy: rub, obv, millar

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

grebt totally could be one

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

search: tail, last, who, fsck, man

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not destroy pico! I like my wussy text editor. Also search: grep, man, ls (with flags), mv, cp.

Destroy: anything that I type accidentally that turns out to be a command that deletes, moves or otherwise fux0rs my files.

― Jen (nstop), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: tail, ping, traceroute, ifconfig

Destroy: chmod

― Xibalba (xibalba), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

search: grep!!!, vi, pico, ls, lp, tail, less, cat, traceroute, ping, who, lpstat, lprm, pine, awk, gas, cp
destroy: ld (I constantly am typing that instead of ls).

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

and a special for today:
destroy man!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "make love" ("Cannot make love.")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 February 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: anything my cat types by jumping on the keyboard which does something nasty. (he once typed AltGr+SysRq+U, which on some Linux machines (ie mine) means "make everything read-only")

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Search "get enough of your love baby"

Etc.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: cat!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Lara, can you kill me too?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

search: kill -9

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very disappointed to see all this chmod hate. How can you dislike a command that takes an octal number as its first parameter?

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, definitely search kill -9, and definitely destroy chmod. I never remember how that one works and I refuse to commit it to memory.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

and of course "man rear"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

but you dont need to use an octal number and it sounds funky.
I gotta go chmod those files, oh yeah baby.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

man -k has its moments but Im a manhater today.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

chmod : pronunciation "shmod" (think Yiddish, like "shmear" or "shmendrik")

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

man suXor and chmod is pronounced as written (ie w/hard ch) as eny fule kno

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No one I know pronounces it with a hard ch.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

its all abou the chmooove way of saying it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm.. when I worked in IT everybody pronounced it with hard ch.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I worked with people who pronounced it as see-aitch-mod. I would poke fun but one of them is literally the guy who put the @ in email addresses.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

chmod vs. shmod FITE!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

tcpdump
kill -9
ssh
snort
mnt /dev/fd0
less
emacs
startx
grep (best command ever)
tail -f

― cprek (cprek), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

grep vs kill -9 fite for supremecy!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

grep (best command ever)

cprek is so OTM it hurts.

― Jen (nstop), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

it gives me tingles every time i pipe something to it...

― cprek (cprek), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

...which is kinda gross.

― cprek (cprek), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i think jw nailed it in the question.
he missed cat /dev/random > /dev/hda1 though 8)

but why the dd hate? i used it only yesterday to strip the apple resource fork type thing from the front of an otherwise perfectly fine jfif file.

dd ifile=one.jpg ofile=two.jpg bs=162 skip=1

od too.

and rsync is as clever as they come.

i wish
vim `find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep -il string {} \;`
wasn't so long.

speaking of vim, vim -d is great. like sdiff only you get to edit both (all of!) the files

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

you know you have unix on the brain when, having finished doing the dishes, you immediately turn to your girlfriend and say:

i ran a "make clean" as root.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 21 February 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Having "mv" also do renaming was a VERY VERY VERY BAD IDEA.
chmod octal rules. I can never figure out the weird +char crap that's supposed to be friendlier. You pronounce the "ch" as the first part of "CHange".
I've done song remixes using nothing but dd, so dd rules.

― Dave Fischer, Saturday, 22 February 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I never fuck around with renaming with mv.

Also, never mv -r *.* /dev/null

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 22 February 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Along the lines of the chmod pronunciation (shmod for me FWIW), how do you all pronounce the characters? Mine:

! - bang
* - splat
\ - wack

Still looking for a one-syllable word for '?'.

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Saturday, 22 February 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

huh?

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 22 February 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

huh? is ideal

got the dd options wrong above, posting in a rush. of course it's bc that uses options that look like ibase= and obase= and dd uses if= and of= rather than ifile=.

and yes, should've used xargs.

used sox last night because i didn't have an empty minidisc handy.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

― ron (ron), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep

-Classic!

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

huh? is OTM. many thanks. now makes writing conditionals that much faster!

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

chmod hatas.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 February 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

GOT A LIGHT?

NO MATCH!

Hahahahhahaha.

(I originally typed 'Goth alight' which is much funnier).

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Can someone tell me what the command to reattach to a suspended process is.

Search: fink, mutella, cd, rm, sudo, ftp, curl

destroy: vi, chmod

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and Tab is by far and awy the best key when working in the Terminal.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

pronouncing punctuation

! = pling (a BBC thing I rec)
" = dit dit (or dits)

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

!=bang

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~emikulic/misc/poem.html

chmod is king, but grep rules.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

omg that poem is brilliant

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! I thought I'd find you here Saunders!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish this was a command

umount cat access | tail

I'd be prompting it all day for you, Ned Raggett

and then when I'm done...

I'd just ask you to...

rm -r

p.s.

What's BurmaKitty's favorite browser?

LYNX of course!

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst ever = making /dev/null into a real file and letting your filesystem fill up.

devfs is godlike!

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw the license plate the other day "CHMOD-X".

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

search: tee

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

tee is overrated

wget over curl

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed - fg?

xargs fucking roolz. Also, why has no-one mentioned lsof?

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed - sorry - as in fg %[something]. Find the [something] from jobs.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

xargs = classic

lsof = almost classic, but I can never be arsed paging through its output

(yeah, I know, I should pipe it through grep or something. It's *still* verbose, and I can never remember its options)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

True. The manpage for lsof is a fucking nightmare, but once you get the hang of it it's an absolute belter.

Also search: tr, and although it's not a command as such, the whole [[ ]] &&(||) construct as opposed to test.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish I could participate here. I had an O'Reilly Unix book in High School. I lent it to the computer teacher, and he never gave it back. He was a funny guy. I used to see him late in the afternoon walking his dog in his bathrobe. He had just woken up. He taught morning classes.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

lsof ain't hard... pidof is a cool command

renice 10 `pidof cp`

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

I just chmod'd a bunch of files. Tingly.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 12 October 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

search: zsh's file globbing wildcards

$ mv **/*.jpg ../pix

to move all jpgs in any folder under the current to ../pix

destroy: find

― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 03:37 (fourteen years ago)

ts: xargs or -exec

― Esteban Buttezface (Leee), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

xargs

― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:16 (fourteen years ago)

unix band names: sudo echo

― and the hint of parp (ledge), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 09:00 (fourteen years ago)

cat poweroff

― and the hint of parp (ledge), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 09:06 (fourteen years ago)

free

― and the hint of parp (ledge), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 09:09 (fourteen years ago)

(suggest) banner

― quantum telescope (+ +), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

(not my suggestion for a unix band name! banner is a gnarly command, is all)

― quantum telescope (+ +), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

I wonder how many rain forests worth of paper were wasted at college 20+ years ago due to every program listing being printed out with two pages of banner-ised username/filename/blah?

― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

bb lll lll
sss nn nnn oooo bb aa aa lll lll
s nnn nn oo oo bbbbbb aa aaa lll lll
sss nn nn oo oo bb bb aa aaa lll lll
s nn nn oooo bbbbbb aaa aa lll lll
sss

tt iii dd
sss tt uu uu pp pp dd cccc
s tttt uu uu ppp pp iii dddddd cc
sss tt uu uu pppppp iii dd dd ... cc
s tttt uuuu u pp iii dddddd ... ccccc
sss

― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

unix underworld tracks: cups

...'sall I got, there

(figlet > banner)

― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:38 (fourteen years ago)

love figlet

― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:32 (fourteen years ago)

man man

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 22:34 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Remote exploits found in Bash. Update your systems.

― abanana, Monday, 3 November 2014 13:01 (ten years ago)

guess i'm a month late.

― abanana, Monday, 3 November 2014 13:09 (ten years ago)

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