[u-u] Sams book

[Hello Kittyhawk]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Bill Duncan wrote:
|On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 05:03:12PM -0500, bdb at 0123456789-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz wrote:
||On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Jim Mercer wrote:
|||On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:41:13PM -0500, Hello Kittyhawk wrote:
||||On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Jim Mercer wrote:
|||||On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:22:35PM -0500, Hello Kittyhawk wrote:
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||||||    Also for those reasons the suggestion to use exepedients like
||||||    "make -j `getconf ...` is functional only in a subset of
||||||    linux distributions
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|||||i'm a recent, and fairly happy, convert to using "$(cmd)" instead of `cmd`.
||||
||||      That's not present in a number of /bin/sh implementations
||||      so if real portability is your goal, it should be avoided
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|||i used to think this as well, but i have not run into a non-compliant
|||/bin/sh in some time.
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||        This answer is commposed on just such a system -
||
||        > echo $( echo hi )
||        syntax error: `(' unexpected
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||        However pdksh does do what's needed :)
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|Do you still use "ed" Bruce, miss all the vi-vs.emacs wars?  ;)

	pine/alpine using The One True Editor vi, tyvm ;P


|replace all those shebangs with ":".

	. o 0 ( what is this ":" you speak of? )


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