[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle
Dash McElroy
dmcelroy at bayfed.com
Sat Nov 19 10:19:45 PST 2005
I found it man-page-surfing. There are a bunch of utilities that do
lots of neat things. Like fold. I've yet to find a use for it in
_this_ challenge, but it's come in handy many times in other tasks.
-Dash
On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:16 AM, cerise at armory.com wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:06:39AM -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
>> HISTORY
>> The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.
>
> I have to admit that I'd never heard of colrm before. Seems
> like it
> would've saved me a lot of awks and seds in scripting 8)
>
>> 'colrm' does not exist on SCO UNIX 5.0.6 (deepthought.armory.com);
>> the same system's 'cal' claims to be standards-compliant.
>
> To be fair, SCO UNIX isn't really an accurate name for it
> anymore. SCO
> did briefly offer a product called SCO UNIX which later was morphed
> into
> what deepthought runs -- OpenServer.
> And, actually, with the hacking going on right now, the
> similarities are
> becoming even more vague.
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
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