On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:56:49PM -0800, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> Just actually slowed down and read the following on grep(1):
>
> > -h Prevents the name of the file containing the matching
> > line from being appended to that line. Used when
> > searching multiple files.
>
> "appended" is incorrect; "prefixed" or if it is a word, "prepended" might be
> more
> appropriate, as the file name followed by a colon would otherwise precede the
> matching line, not follow it.
>
> As an aside, while I respect that some of the unprofessional remarks from man
> pages
> have been removed over time, I wish someone would collect them and create a
> "tradition(5)" (or (6) perhaps) man page. Some of them, like the line from
> tunefs(1m)
> "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish", were worth preserving
> in some sense..
That got removed? That wouldn't happen in FreeBSD, if only because of
the following warning in the comments :)
% zgrep -A3 dog /usr/share/man/man8/tunefs.8.gz
.\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.
.Pp
You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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