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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Thank you, Bill Joy!
Message-ID: <65@volition.dec.com>
Date: 20 Aug 88 23:19:33 GMT
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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I just got a smile out of a command which sort of jumped out of my fingers,
ahead of my brain.  I thought that the csh gets enough bad publicity that
I'd share the cause of my grin:

% mkdir {man,cat}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
% ls -l
total 16
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat1/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat2/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat3/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat4/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat5/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat6/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat7/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 cat8/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man1/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man2/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man3/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man4/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man5/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man6/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man7/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root          512 Aug 20 16:15 man8/
-- 
Paul Vixie
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