[Eug-lug] To Horst-Q/colours

[walter fry]

I have pencil on paper copied this command string and thought it wiser to 
ask whether this might be destructive if I entered this as is...is it ok to 
use?

>From: "T. Joseph CARTER" <knghtbrd at bluecherry.net>
>Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
>To: larry price <laprice at gmail.com>,Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group 
><euglug at euglug.org>
>Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] To Horst-Q/colours
>Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:20:55 -0800
>
>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:56:22AM -0500, larry price wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:17:38 -0800, T. Joseph CARTER
> > <knghtbrd at bluecherry.net> wrote:
> > > They say Linux is free if your time has no value.  For the time 
>invested,
> > > though, you learn about a set of tools that are largely the same ones 
>that
> > > were developed 35 years ago for getting serious work done, and are 
>still
> > > some of the most effective tools for that purpose.  The UNIX shell
> > > environment is at times a scary thing for new users, but once you get 
>the
> > > hang of it and how easily you can do most anything you want with it, I
> > > think you'll be hard pressed to imagine anything else as worthwhile, 
>even
> > > if it does seem simpler for the time being.
> >
> > Keep at it, and you might find yourself doing things like this
> >
> > find /usr/blah/ -type l -exec ls -l {} \; | sed 's/^.* \([^ ].*\) ->
> > \(.*\)/ln -s \2 \/usr\/foo\/\1' > tmp; eval tmp; rm tmp
> >
> > I actually used something like that earlier today, it made sense in 
>context.
>
>You're missing a / there before > tmp, and that's disgusting(!) and
>clever.  ;)
>
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