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RE: Rsync invalid?!?
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 08:59:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Rsync invalid?!?
- References: <034b01c67d9b$0cf7ff20$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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On Mon, 22 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 20 May 2006 02:00, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> >
> >> Nelson Pereira wrote:
> >>> This script is RIBS no longuer supported [snip]
> >> ^^^^
> >> $ wtf ribs
> >> 'ribs' - no entry found <-- :-(
> >>
> >> (Ok, probably not the real error, but I don't actually have 'wtf' so
> >> I made something up. Wiktionary and <acronyms.thefreedictionary.com>
> >> don't know either.)
> >
> > 'wtf' just silently exits. BWAM. :-D
> > Igor
>
> I don't see what's so mean about that...
>
> dk@rainbow /artimi/software> wtf cygwin >/dev/null && echo Good
> Good
> dk@rainbow /artimi/software> wtf ribs >/dev/null || echo Bad
> Bad
> dk@rainbow /artimi/software>
Oh, you just haven't seen the ugly side of WTF... Take, for example:
igor@pechtcha /tmp> wtf huh > /dev/null ; echo Huh?
Huh?
No information whatsoever. How's that for mean? :-)
Igor
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