21 Mar
2020
21 Mar
'20
3:57 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Richard Salz wrote:
A cool thing about tools is that you never know how it
will be used.
Indeed. I once wrote a shell script that basically acted as an n-way
"cut" i.e. you specify the columns you wanted to extract and they ended up
on the corresponding file descriptors. Ran into all sorts of bugs, as the
"obvious" solution didn't work.
Bach's prelude in C major from Well-Tempered
Clavier book I, written in pure
(GNU) sed: https://github.com/laserbat/bach.sed
I have the Towers of Hanoi written in sendmail.cf, meaning that Sendmail
is Turing-complete :-) I can't remember who wrote it.
-- Dave