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# 8  
Old 07-28-2011
You're really reaching; none of that is relevant here.

I made a simple, innocuous correction to a common shell mistake. Take it or leave it. Neither of us have anything to prove.
# 9  
Old 07-28-2011
Code:
(16:09:37\[D@DeCoWork15)
[~]$ cat hello.txt
it was a sunny way and i was about to go home.

(16:09:43\[D@DeCoWork15)
[~]$ grep -o "way and i was about to" hello.txt
way and i was about to

(16:09:54\[D@DeCoWork15)
[~]$ grep -o "way and i was about to" hello.txt > hello.out

(16:10:02\[D@DeCoWork15)
[~]$ cat hello.out
way and i was about to

# 10  
Old 07-28-2011
-o is a GNU-only option. It probably won't work unless he has Linux.
 
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