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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Rsync invalid?!?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0605220858440.21697@access1.cims.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <034b01c67d9b$0cf7ff20$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

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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      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-22 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2006-05-19 15:21 ` mwoehlke
2006-05-20  0:59   ` Igor Peshansky
2006-05-22 12:27     ` Dave Korn
2006-05-22 13:00       ` Igor Peshansky [this message]

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