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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? One liners, quick rant... Post 302977499 by Neo on Tuesday 19th of July 2016 07:18:33 AM

07-19-2016

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Yeah... my view is that if you want (generally) "one liner" for a more complex task or expression, but it in a file and save it; and execute the script.

Of course, to each his own, and I'm not saying others should not be creative; I'm only saying that my experience is that I have so much code to manage, some from 10 years ago, and "elegant" or "fancy" one liners are hard to understand years after writing them, at least for me.

Anyway, I'm always going back and looking a legacy HTML and PHP and other admin scripts for this site and all the backup sites, etc. I try to keep is very clean, easy to understand, because with a site like this; you could be out have wine with friends and need to come back to the desk to fix a problem!

But I still use the unix pipeline for command line tasks, but nothing fancy or that I would keep for sysadmin.

Anyway, maybe I misunderstood the post or the intention here... which is possible since I have been coding like crazy lately!!

LOL

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sysadmin

SYSADMIN(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SYSADMIN(1)

NAME

       sysadmin  - responsible for everything imaginable that may or may not have to do with the system you're using.  Contraction of "system" and
       "administrator"

SYNOPSIS

       sysadmin [-ab] [-cd] [-ef] etc......

DESCRIPTION

       sysadmin takes care of everything, is generally harangued, must be supplied with coffee, chocolate, and alcohol in order to function  prop-
       erly, cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, and must not be allowed to have a life.

       sysadmin is not intended as a user interface routine; other programs provide user-friendly front ends; sysadmin is used by everyone who can
       track him [her] down.

       With no flags, sysadmin reads its standard input up to an EOF, or a line which sysadmin wishes to parse, and then  proceeds  to	ignore	it
       entirely  and  read  news  all  day.  When invoked with the -w option, sysadmin reads standard input and responds according to terms of job
       description.

OPTIONS

       -bofh  Go into Bastard Operator From Hell mode.	This option causes sysadmin to use tools stored in the /usr/lib/bofh  directory  to  parse
	      the standard input and route user tasks appropriately.

       -cd    causes sysadmin to become caffeine-deprived, resulting in system slowdowns.

       -b     causes  the sysadmin to function normally while augmenting the standard input with beer(5).  Can be used with the -t option as well,
	      depending upon which version of sysadmin you are running.

       -t     causes the sysadmin to smoke tobacco, which can result in significant performance improvement, provided you are running the  correct
	      version of sysadmin.

       -Cfile Specify an alternate configuration file (sysadmin.cf is the standard).

       -dX    set debuggin value to X.

       -fFullname
	      Set the full name of the sysadmin.

       -Bf    Create the sysadmin.cf configuration freeze file.

       -lname Sets the name of the "luser" person (that is, originator of a given request). -l can only be used by "trusted" users (who are listed
	      in sysadmin.cf).

NOTES

       The -t option should not be used with a version of sysadmin which is not capable of parsing tobacco input.   Though  the  functionality	of
       this command may seem similar to the -b option, it should not be confused with that or the related -c option.

								 25 September 1995						       SYSADMIN(1)