Theoretical vs Practical Knowledge

Thu Dec 13 14:10:51 PST 2001

I would just say the the alphabet in upper and lower case. :)

ls -[a-zA-z]

:)

---- As written by David Wolfskill:
> 
> >Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:28:55 -0800
> >From: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+baylisa at snew.com>
> 
> >Well, obviously you mount the mailq noatime and
> >you set syslog to stop fsyncing (many  modern syslogs
> >allow this, sun's doesn't).
> 
> Or tell syslog to go scribble on some other machine altogether (which I
> believe Sun's *does* permit)....  :-}
> 
> >I have a boss now who is infamous to the people to came after
> >him for "describe all the options to ls." It's an icebreaker.
> >When a "sr system admin" manages to list 4 and stop then you
> >know s/he's faking it.  The sr. people know that it's pretty
> >large.
> 
> I think my response to that would likely be "For a complete list, `man
> ls`; off the top of my head, it's going to depend on whose "ls" we're
> talking about, but some usually-encountered options are ...."
> 
> >And yeah, coming from the era of NSF funded connections,
> >when I get nervous I transpose those at times.  Hell, my
> >film background has caused me to talk about SMPTE protocols :)
> 
> :-}
> 
> Cheers,
> david
> -- 
> David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
> I believe it would be irresponsible (and thus, unethical) for me to advise,
> recommend, or support the use of any product that is or depends on any
> Microsoft product for any purpose other than personal amusement.
> 

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