On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:29:42AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > tr -d '\n' > > > > deletes the new lines > > Ahhh, ok. Was still going off of the previous Python examples which > didn't delete newlines, only replaced them with spaces. Mea Culpa. >
I have to say that this stuff is one of my favorite parts of deb-user. There is so much you can do with *sh and the various little gnu utils that its really mind blowing to me. I love the opportunity to learn new ways of thinking. The python examples are how I would have originally approached the problem, but seeing this little one liner I find amazing, initially cryptic at best, but ultimately very intuitive and natural. same goes for sed, awk and various other archaic but extremely useful bits. sort of like the swiss-army knife of computing. A oh, and by archaic I merely mean that they've been around for a long time. maybe arcane is better? ancient and cryptic but magically useful once you've grokked the appropriate incantations. heh. A
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