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At first glance, I read that as World of Warcraft 64-bit; that's pretty sad, since I've never played that game, that Blizzard has still ingrained its branding in me.
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on what basis is this not spam? it adds nothing to the discussion, is not clever and is not even 'Frist'. It sounds like Askimet finally got something right.
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I think spam is, by definition, sent out in mass.
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I guess you're one of those people who thinks a joke is funnier when someone explains it, huh? (Get it? It had to get to the other side! LOL)
And if wanking off in a public place doesn't make you pause and think "hmmm, maybe he's not being serious here", then you're either a little daft or you had your sense of humor surgically removed.
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Maybe you're just not funny? Ever thought of that? 'cause you keep saying there's a joke in there but you're just covering up what a dumbass you are.
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Very likely...
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PPPPFFFTT! HA HA HA HA HA!!
You're calling me oblivious when you thought I was being serious when I jokingly took you seriously! That's why I didn't know what you meant! I'm like "what's he talking about?" and then I realized "oh, this is like being called stupid by a retard! he's too stupid to know what stupidity is!"
ha ha oh, man...
It's like - you come here every day make a fool of yourself, but I still like having you here anyway. Never leave.
Cue lame attempt to re-garner self-esteem that C-Octo is known for
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Does wc no longer take an input file as an argument? WhyTF did he cat the file?
Methinks this guy just loves piping!
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Ok, so let me get this straight: I'm retarded because I didn't get you were joking with me, but you're brilliant because you didn't realize I was joking?
Whatever makes you feel better...
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Could have been worse; this is in our code base as part of a larger script - written by a self proclaimed DOS batch expert as part of Linux pre-processing:
#!/bin/ksh # Determine the number of non-blank lines contained in a file if [[ -z $1 ]]; then echo "Usage: $0 fileName" exit 1 fi typeset -i n=0 while read line; do # ksh strips leading/trailing white space/blank lines if [[ "$line" != "" ]]; then (( n = n + 1 )) fi done < $1 echo $nAdmin
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The best part is that Perl only eats the extra spaces, LTRIM(line_count). Either use Perl to do the whole thing, or shell commands. Never do both.
Personally, I see /bin/cat is TRWTF since it does nothing but put the file on the STDIN stream.
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When perl is allowed, here's my one-liner:
perl -e 'print @{[<>]}."\n"' /var/run/netstat_r.lstAdmin
Well, back to work...
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It depends - are you doing it in the bathroom of a public place? I remember seeing a study where a surprising number of men would do it in a bathroom stall at work. (~20%) I did when I was an intern.
So, sure you were joking, but there's also a good chance that you weren't
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They removed -l from wc in the very embedded platform this runs in...so they could fit perl into the memory footprint.
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DAE think it's a bit weird that he uses the fully qualified names for all of the executables (except Perl)? In what case is /bin not on the path? In what case is /usr/bin not on the path either? Yet, it almost certainly is, since perl is usually in /usr/bin. Crazy.
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Should use
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facepalm
No, you're retarded because you didn't even get it when I explained it to you directly just a minute ago.
Just read it again, 10th try's the charm!
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Guys, I don't see that there's any disagreement here. You each say the other is retarded and not funny. You're both right.
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Kinda like what we saw here two days ago. Whether it's SQL or ksh, failure to learn your tools leads to gross inefficiency.
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Go ahead, join the party, you'll fit in with this crowd.
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Must... not... be... pedantic... Oh, what the Hell, this is TDWTF after all:
By definition*, spam as a noun - as used in this case - means, "A canned meat product made mainly from ham." When used as a verb, as if to say, "I spammed TDWTF forums today.", then it means, "Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet."
So, therefore, the OP technically was correct. His post was in fact: not spam.
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And in the most generic form possible. What reason do you have to say "Whatever makes you feel better" other than to trivialize what I said to make yourself feel better?
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Exactly, the spam filter is there to keep advertisers from carpet-bombing messages, not to keep people from posting stupid stuff. It's obviously not the latter would be devoid of... well... the usual suspects.
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Well, being pedantic again, there is a theory that those "usual suspects" are in fact actually just one person, so it would be grammatically incorrect to pluralize suspects. ;)
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Then I'll have to be pedantic in turn: They are definitely not one person, because I am some of them, but not others. So it's at least two people, and therefore "suspects" should remain plural. Thank you and have a nice day.
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I would, but IT took it off my computer.
captcha: suscipere : I'm suscipere of the IT department.
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It's totally non-portable, though, if the platform doesn't have wc.
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FTFY.
You're retarded because you keep saying stupid, irrelevant shit. And you pretend that the people calling you on it are in some cabal against you. There's no cabal, just people annoyed at your tiresome babble.
But you win, and everybody else loses. Just stfu already. Nobody likes a sore winner.
Everybody else: DO NOT FEED THE TROLL.
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I am Lucent. I was lying. I am just one person.
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I don't believe that does what you think it does. It'll do the same thing as:
which will merely print the entire file with spaces prepended to all lines but the first.
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I feel so dirty... Kind of like in Bachelor Party where dude finds out the hot chick is really a dude.
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I believe this counts non-blank lines:
cat file | grep -v "^[ \t]*$" | wc -l
I know, save the cats! But I like using cat in front of a long pipe because it's clearer to me.
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Well you don't have to worry about that here, I'm a chick pretending to be a bunch of dudes. Better?
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This is actually a very funny joke I laughed even though I grew up on Unix. It's a joke you see because Penguins waddle, and so do fat programmers. (btw it's the new vogue on TDWTF to bash fat people, probably because they smell).
I don't think many people will get this joke though, because everyone's so touchy nowadays what with this global recession an' all.
I hope the rest of the comments are as good as this one.
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oh ffs. That's it, i'm formatting every machine I own and moving them over to pirated copies of Windows server. I cannot be associated with these people. I will never admit to knowing the syntax for wc ever again, even if my life depends on it (which seems fairly unlikely tbh).
what a bunch of humourless overweight beardy freaks.
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Although I pretty much agree with everything you said, I don't think C-Poundsign claimed a cabal was against him. Now he might. You don't play poker much, do you?
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grep -v ^\ *$ /var/run/netstat_r.lst |wc -l
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For the record, I haven't got a beard.
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FTFY. no need for the WC if you only want the number of lines
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I don't know which pisses me off more. UNIX/Linux humor or the people that find it funny.
Probably the people.
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You rang?...
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My favorite script:
:(){ :|:& };:Admin
Same goes for people who makes jokes in foreign languages and cultures that I'm not familiar with or don't understand. It pisses me off that these people persistently make jokes that I don't get.
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