On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:35:35AM -0700, larry a price wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
>>
>> !!:gs/'/`/ && slay -HUP `ps -f -C false | awk '{print $1}'`
>>
>Ok, i'll bite:
>
>i know that slay is some fancy version of kill that's not a default linux
>prog, and the !! replays the last command, :gs/'/`/ substitutes ` for ' in
>that command and the `ps ...` bit prints the username of anyone currently
>running false; blamed if i can figure out what it's for.
The "kill all the lawyers" command would have produced an error message,
so the followup command included a "run it again with this substitution"
bit, as you covered. Next, identify those who run false and send the
hangup signal to all their processes; hence,
"first kill all the lawyers, then hang all the liars"...i can't remember
Falstaff's next line...
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:wq!
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^X^C
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