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Feb 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
I guess I learned a tiny little but about awk... I definitely need to figure out how to use it now. Other than that, I agree, this is rather pointless.
BrewmasterC, that's a perfect example of why you partition your *nix boxen. Too many people just do one huge partition now adays, and then their box crashes when some particularly noisy apps starts logging like crazy, when /var could have been the extent of the impact.
burkeFeb 22, 2006
I guess I learned a tiny little but about awk... I definitely need to figure out how to use it now. Other than that, I agree, this is rather pointless.
brian223Feb 22, 2006
> why> date | awk -F : '{ print $1 ":" $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 " " $3 }'> when you can> date +"%a %b %d"why ..date +"%a %b %d" when you can,date | perl -ne 'print "$1" . "n" if /^(.*)sd+:.*/' :-P
slaybackFeb 22, 2006
BrewmasterC, that's a perfect example of why you partition your *nix boxen. Too many people just do one huge partition now adays, and then their box crashes when some particularly noisy apps starts logging like crazy, when /var could have been the extent of the impact.
drajFeb 22, 2006
Unbelivable that this makes it to the front page. Don't digg the headline. Digg the article, please.
digdugdigFeb 22, 2006
dugg, because this article make all the real linux veterans cry... :D
slackwiseFeb 22, 2006
How does s**t like this get to the front page? Honestly...
mentorFeb 22, 2006
Well, given that you can probably run most of these on other UNIces with minor or no modification...