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Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"
Shlomi Fish writes "O'Reilly is publishing a new book titled 'Mastering cat,' about the UNIX 'cat' command. Here is an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with the author about it. Read it to see if this book should be part of your bookshelf of technical books."
But I kept on getting scratched...
I'd prefer the follow up "Mastering Pussy"
I was hoping for a manual to help me read the icanhascheezburger comments.
I've been trying to get my cat to play nice with gnu Hurd for a while. It seems like it starts to work, but then starts to ignore all IO and proceeds to SLEEP(3600). I am eagerly awaiting someone who can get a cat Hurd to work.
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
I CAN HAZ DIS BOOK NOW PLZ??
Proudly supporting the Libertarian Party.
rm -r testes
I'm still waiting for "Mastering true" and "Mastering false". The delay is understandable, considering nobody is able to harness the true power of these two commands.
If they released a book on how to master tail (heck, even find tail), it would change slashdot forever.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
rob@thinkpad:~$ pussy
bash: pussy: command not found
rob@thinkpad:~$ man pussy
No manual entry for pussy
Pussy doesn't even exist ...
~# date
Wed Apr 1 13:31:50 EDT 2009
~# links2 -dump http://slashdot.org/ >> humortest.txt
~# cat humortest.txt | grep $somethingfunny
~#
...Schroeder's cat. If it works, you don't know it, but if it doesn't you have to try again until you get it to work (if you can tell that it worked anyway). Then the pipe comes out to stop my mind frying.
That's "Schrodinger's cat". Your license to make quantum mechanics jokes is hereby revoked. To make sure you don't try to take your license back, we're going to keep you updated on its current velocity.
Bow-ties are cool.
Protip: IGNORE IT.
Seriously, if you hate all these stories so much, leave /. for the day. It won't kill you. You know they're going to be here all day, so come back tomorrow. You'll be happier because you won't be reading the stories, and we'll be happier because you won't be bitching about our fun.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
The second edition of "Mastering Cat" will include in-depth coverage of the use of "cat" in the new generation of object-oriented Unix shells. Key topics will include:
You think I'm joking? Watch me. Hopefully what I come up with won't be quite the nightmare I'm trying to describe above. :D
Bow-ties are cool.
That's strange. When I try:
h4rm0ny@mybox~$ grep -r pussy *
I get lots and lots of results.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
it's not even Caturday yet.
1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
Well, it is like regular Descent, except rather than flying through caves, you are flying through a dry, arid desert area. And rather than lasers and smart bombs, you get a spear. If lucky, you get a power up weapon of a coke bottle that comes to you from the gods in the sky.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
No manual entry for pussy
I think I see the problem here - try starting her off with 3 or 4 vodka appletinis.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
As an aside, remember kids, don't do this:
cat foo | grep bar
It is bad Unix!
Eh, it's not that big a deal.
Yes, you can simply say "grep bar foo" and it will have the same effect with less typing. But it's really not that big a deal, and there are times when I would do this. Usually it is because I'm doing something like this:
shell_script foo | grep bar
And I'm not getting the results I expect; then I might swap out the shell script part for cat, to help me debug. It's easier to type
cat !*
or even
^shell_script^cat
than to retype the whole command.
As long as you know what you are doing, build the command line any way you like. The computer exists to serve you, not the other way around...
Now someone will mod me (-1, No Sense of Humor) or (-1, Beating the Joke Into the Ground). But I regret nothing! Nothing, I tell you.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
O'Reilly would never put a picture of a cat on a book about "cat". It's way too obvious. (Well, nevermind.)
pussy does exist, however there is no documentation for it, so you have to figure it out for yourself.
The other thing is, it isn't in $PATH, and slocate doesn't index it, so finding it is an exercise in itself.