stupid unix commands

Scott Yelich scott at cs.odu.edu
Fri May 4 10:36:10 AEST 1990


>   |> 	I've found "yes" does have a use for generating a list of numbers
>   |> in a shell script, a la:

Shell?

>   |> 	yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10
>     Perhaps you should consider using the right tool for the job.... What
>   you do here in 4 processes and a whole bunch of context switching, I can
>   do in one:
>	   jot 10 11



And people say I don't have a sense of humor..... Any use of ``yes,'' in my
opinion, is humorous [I may be wrong... but I thought that original post was
an attempt at humor... and I laughed for a good minute when I read it!]

I hope I was mistaken......
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