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Re: Did I get in?
Article: 7811 of alt.hackers From: js10039@thor.cam.ac.uk (J. Sullivan) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Did I get in? Date: 12 May 1995 20:19:02 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 29 Approved: zzzzzzzzz Message-ID: 3p0frm$d3c@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk Status: RO
In article <3ovrv4$j5v@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>, Jeremy Todd Dilatush <dilatush@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote: >Steven M. Loranz (sloranz@xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu) wrote: >: didn't want. I know...this is lame and is well known amongst the UNIX >: gods...but I felt good that I could fix it without too much thought > >Using "cat" to edit a file is damn simple (I do it because I'm too lazy often >to fire up emacs or learn vi) ... using it when you need to fix something >should count as a hack, though. > >A _real_ hack is when you don't have "cat" so you write a script >(ObHack:) >#!/bin/sh >tee /dev/null > -- /etc/fstab (say) -- /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 0 -- sed -e 's/^\(\/dev\/hdb1\)/#\1/' /etc/fstab >/tmp/fstab #(or just /^\/dev\/hdb1/D ) mv /tmp/fstab /etc/fstab John
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