Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Sunday, September 03, 2017

Pizza Challenge, Round 2?

Could be time for another Pizza Challenge.  Lots of new options on the market.  Not sure I'm up for a full week of eating only frozen pizza though...

Friday, September 01, 2017

Awk! sed grep.



Challenge Accepted!

Create a file containing a list of the artists with music files in the m4p format using a single line of piped together unix shell commands. Each artist name should be listed only once.

find `pwd` -name *.m4p | sed 's/ /_/g' | sed 's/\// /g' | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/_/ /g' | awk '!seen[$0]++' > ArtistsWithProtectedFiles.txt

Bonus Trivia Fact: The newest of those commands (awk) was created around 40 years ago. It still works.


Monday, July 31, 2017

Totally Comprehensive?

I saw this on the back cover of the Final Fantasy XV Official Game Guide and felt the need to share. The book's authors desire to pander to a younger generation by injecting the word "Totally" seems to have undermined the editor's redundancy checks.  It may be unfair to lay this on the authors.  Who in the book publishing business prepares back-cover blurbs, maybe marketing?

Overall the book seems pretty good, but I find myself questioning the comprehensiveness of the information.  Noticing this gaff has caused my subconscious to call every page into question. 


Monday, July 17, 2017

Been a while

Just a test, and a note to show I didn't die from the pizza experiment that was the subject of my last post almost 3 years ago.