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I saw South Park's review of The Passion. | by Naruki | 2004-04-05 09:28:19 |
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That wasn't right. | by nin_man | 2004-04-05 09:39:11 |
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You B*****rd (n/t) | by airborneric | 2004-04-05 10:24:15 |
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s/B*****rd/B****rd/ | by Spelling_Nazi | 2004-04-05 10:26:46 |
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Tsk. | by LionsPhil | 2004-04-05 10:31:55 |
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I did realize that anomaly, | by Spelling_Nazi | 2004-04-05 10:50:13 |
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Don't like being nitpicked yourself? | by LionsPhil | 2004-04-05 12:04:11 |
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But you have to be correct, and you aren't. | by Naruki | 2004-04-05 12:21:54 |
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I'd reply, | by LionsPhil | 2004-04-05 12:34:09 |
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It's not silly. | by Naruki | 2004-04-05 12:45:00 |
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What do mean, you've never used it? | by LionsPhil | 2004-04-05 13:33:21 |
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I did say that. | by Naruki | 2004-04-05 14:01:29 |
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I am NOT trying to pick a fight. | by LionsPhil | 2004-04-05 15:01:17 |
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Primarily? Where are your stats? | by Naruki | 2004-04-05 15:15:34 |
| Look, 'ruki, |
by LionsPhil |
2004-04-05 16:18:20 |
"s/x/y/" is a common UNIX 'thing' - common to absolutely fundemental, basic tools like sed, vi, and ed, that means substitute x with y, where x is a regular expression (in Perl-land, y can 'special' too (and it's from Perl-land I picked up the aformentioned bad habit (damn dirty Perl hackers ;) ))).
The "/x/" bit it just like regular-expression-based line matching in AWK:
/x/ {print "z"}
From what I can recall, AWK doesn't do applying of these 'things'. Perl does:
$somestring =~ s/teh/the/
#(to be a real pedant, you want a 'g' on the end to apply to all occourances (global), instead of just the first)
My perception is NOT that "everyone uses UNIX". It's that "most people on this board use a UNIX-like OS". And it's not a "power user" thing; just above that basic level of the home user, and my perception includes that most of those people WILL be at this level. Given that this is a mostly (*MOSTLY*) pro-UNIX geek-filled board (from general assessment of the board - if you must have 'hard stats', you'll have to prod Kickstart to see which OS shows up the most in the browser strings of post submissions), I don't think that it's an unfair assumption that the tendancy to use "s/x/y/" in subject lines here is UNIX-oriented. Did SN mean it that way? Probably not - he's stated his ignorance of this notation. But did airborneric mean "B*****rd"? Probably not. As I already stated, "given that Spelling Nazi has been nitpicking all manner of little spelling-errors today (not just the funny ones), I thought I'd pick up HIS geek-errors". It was a response to the trivial typo and spelling error corrections irking me, not an attempt at starting a heated debate. If I'd wanted one of those, I'd have claimed that he incorrectly corrected the spelling. ;)
To put it another way: it was a counter-prod, not a punch.
(Oh, and, honestly, trying to stop him from hitting back? How?) |
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