[NBLUG/talk] Neat command line tricks

ME dugan at passwall.com
Tue Jul 8 23:13:01 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:26:32AM -0700, Kevin Bingham wrote:
> Does anybody else have similar neat tricks?

Sure. This is a link to old "jokes" that worked with different shells.

"%" are often csh while "$" are often "sh":

http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/perl/unix.html

This was going around around in my early *NIX years, and I expect it is
older than that...

(Though some things have been changed and others added.)

-ME




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