March 8
Jim's asides
Chapters 11 thru 13
Catching up from before:
played around with chmod, umask, and sudo su. Figured out how to adjust history settings: HISTSIZE=x for some integer x; also the very useful control R, which allows heads up history searching into auto complete.
How does one create a group? The book said do it with a GUI...
Current:
Played around with various process control commands, ps, top, jobs, kill and some of their options.
used printenv and set - what a large text file! - I guess this is some of the stuff that one can't get with more closed source things?
Many funnies here ^
http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1990/westley.c (1990 obfuscated C winner)
I'm tempted to to compile this...
These two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"
The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk
boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"
"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."
Ok, this one is funny.
# Command line Russian Roulette.
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo *Click*
You know, I don't understand all of this syntax and I'm really a-OK with that!
Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who its friends are.
You have to take the time to get to know Unix, ya know?
