Grep Has Died!!

**dsheller** · Aug 24th, 2004, 07:33 PM

You heard it here first:

VB Code:

[root@omghi2u sheller]# grep -i ZZ
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE

The grep command on my box has decided to no longer function!

**crptcblade** · Aug 24th, 2004, 09:02 PM

Oh ****!

What's grep?

**dsheller** · Aug 24th, 2004, 09:20 PM

Magic.

**EJ12N** · Aug 24th, 2004, 09:32 PM

i though grep was a vbf member LOL

**crptcblade** · Aug 24th, 2004, 09:39 PM

Originally posted by dsheller
Magic.

Excellent. I'll get my Spongebob Squarepants costume and start on a counter-spell.

**dglienna** · Aug 24th, 2004, 09:41 PM

Grep searches one or more input files for
lines containing a match to a specified pattern

I've only seen it on Unix, but it is probably on Linux as well.
I don't think that I've seen it under Windows.

But, I could be wrong, or mistaken

**dsheller** · Aug 24th, 2004, 09:55 PM

Originally posted by crptcblade
Excellent. I'll get my Spongebob Squarepants costume and start on a counter-spell.

Oh thank god! Now that you're on the case scooby doo I can rest easy!

Originally posted by dglienna
I've only seen it on Unix, but it is probably on Linux as well.
I don't think that I've seen it under Windows.

That is what I am using it under, a linux environment.

**visualAd** · Aug 24th, 2004, 11:06 PM

Originally posted by dsheller
You heard it here first:

VB Code:

[root@omghi2u sheller]# grep -i ZZ
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE

The grep command on my box has decided to no longer function!

This should fix it:

# grep -i ZZ --sandpaper

Why would it stop working? This isn't Windows we are talking about, things don't just STOP working for no reason. Did you abuse it?

**wossname** · Aug 25th, 2004, 02:27 AM

Originally posted by crptcblade
What's grep?

Somehow I feel superior to you now. I did before, but now even more so

**BodwadUK** · Aug 25th, 2004, 02:43 AM

[Priests Voice]
We are gathered here today to morn the passing of our good friend Grep.

He was a friend to all of us, even if he did scare us with his cross dressing. He lived a short but eventful life. Although he couldnt even read he still had the heart to support a struggling magazine company by advertising and buying their products.

Maybe it was his heart in the end that reached up and throttled his brain in a desperate attempt to save us all.

We thank him from the bottom of our hearts and should be pleased that we knew him in his short exciting life.

Now we commend his bits and bytes to the recycle bin in the hope that it will save us a defrag in the distant future

Rest in peace my good friend

BEEP. (Computer term for Amen)

[/priests voice]

No Wossy dont cry he is in a much better place now where he no longer needs a cpu to function.

Electo please take wossy to a seat and get him a drink. Mendhak stop dancing on the grave theres a good boy. Go and get a drink for the old man Martin Liss. Theres a good lad.

Venerable Bede stop scaring dsheller there is no such things as ghosts and he doesnt stand a chance of recovering his friend with that naff overexpensive software. Somebody Overwrote the memory 20 times and not mentioning any names but it was a very cruel thing to do wasnt it
crptcblade!!!

**wossname** · Aug 25th, 2004, 02:48 AM

Originally posted by BodwadUK

No Wossy dont cry he is in a much better place now where he no longer needs a cpu to function.

I always thought he was running in Power Saving mode most of the time anyway, Turbo button definitely off. But anyway, mustn't speak ill of the dead.

Originally posted by BodwadUK
Electo please take wossy to a seat and get him a drink.

The most sensible thing you have ever said

.

**BodwadUK** · Aug 25th, 2004, 03:04 AM

I just want to see the fight as you try and pry it out of electomans hands

**wossname** · Aug 25th, 2004, 05:00 AM

Originally posted by dsheller
You heard it here first:

VB Code:

[root@omghi2u sheller]# grep -i ZZ
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE
BLANK SCREEN SPACE

The grep command on my box has decided to no longer function!

There's a dead easy way to fix that.

Use the repair command...

rm -r

**BodwadUK** · Aug 25th, 2004, 07:51 AM

Missed that one

**visualAd** · Aug 25th, 2004, 07:56 AM

Don't you mean:

rm -Rf /

**venerable bede** · Aug 25th, 2004, 12:52 PM

I'm wearing my boxer shorts and listening to Elton John so there.

**nemaroller** · Aug 25th, 2004, 03:21 PM

The Grep utility belongs to SCO, so sorry, you will have to pay their $150 licensing fee from now on, once they actually establish appropriate means for someone to pay those fees. In the meantime, just imaging writing them a check.

Additionally, I'm sure a few other command utilities will fall to way side as well... like shutdown, pstree, and a few other very essential yet unglamorous functions.

**visualAd** · Aug 25th, 2004, 03:57 PM

If they want liscencing fees off me they can extract them from my back passage

**BodwadUK** · Aug 26th, 2004, 02:39 AM

If they are desperate for money then you will regret saying that

**wossname** · Aug 26th, 2004, 03:02 AM

Originally posted by nemaroller
The Grep utility belongs to SCO

But there are loads of open source variants.

**nemaroller** · Aug 26th, 2004, 06:18 AM

But the Shutdown command doesn't have an alternative...

Henceforth, all Linux computers will have to be manually restarted by simply unplugging it from the wall, and repluggng it back in.

**BodwadUK** · Aug 26th, 2004, 09:19 AM

I own the patent on that one. Now pay up

**wossname** · Aug 26th, 2004, 10:05 AM

Originally posted by nemaroller
But the Shutdown command doesn't have an alternative...

Henceforth, all Linux computers will have to be manually restarted by simply unplugging it from the wall, and repluggng it back in.

You mean that's not the normal way of doing it?

That explains why I've got through 45 hard drives in the last 6 weeks.

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by BodwadUK
I own the patent on that one. Now pay up

ok then, here's to mendhaks and a kitty(the kitty's a bit deformed though):

o--^

**nemaroller** · Aug 26th, 2004, 10:50 AM

Originally posted by BodwadUK
I own the patent on that one. Now pay up

I use the flip the circuit breaker method... and its much more secure than your patented method... because its open source.

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 10:55 AM

Why do Linux people 90% of the time have a Penguin as an Avatar? Is it a fetish thing?

Tux should be a frog

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:00 AM

Originally posted by Cander
Why do Linux people 90% of the time have a Penguin as an Avatar? Is it a fetish thing?

Tux should be a frog

Why is there pictures of God in churches?

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:03 AM

Well I need an SCO avatar. Where there is a god, there is satan.

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:14 AM

Originally posted by Cander
Well I need an SCO avatar. Where there is a god, there is satan.

Would a picture of Bill-tha-man do? They're all over the net... And he's kinda evil, isn't he?

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:19 AM

No. Bill is a business man, who despite having the aura of evil, has done alot for the IT industry. So he'd more likely be sentenced to roam the earth till judgement day.

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:24 AM

Originally posted by Cander
No. Bill is a business man, who despite having the aura of evil, has done alot for the IT industry. So he'd more likely be sentenced to roam the earth till judgement day.

Aww man... hasn't he done anything evil I can flame him for?

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:28 AM

Well hes done questionable things. I wouldnt say bundling IE into Windows is evil, although people will tell you it was an evil scheme that caused Netscape to crumble. Nevermind that Netscape sucked major crank during the browser wars.

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by Cander
Well hes done questionable things. I wouldnt say bundling IE into Windows is evil, although people will tell you it was an evil scheme that caused Netscape to crumble. Nevermind that Netscape sucked major crank during the browser wars.

I guess we should thank him for that... It brought us FireFox :O

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:30 AM

Yeah, we can thank him for letting IE start sucking crank so FireFox can take over...teehee

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:35 AM

Originally posted by Cander
Yeah, we can thank him for letting IE start sucking crank so FireFox can take over...teehee

IE always sucked crank, people just first saw it when Mozilla came along and kicked its booty

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 11:39 AM

No. IE was a great browser, for its time, that kept up with alot of new web specifications.

**vbNeo** · Aug 26th, 2004, 12:02 PM

Originally posted by Cander
No. IE was a great browser, for its time, that kept up with alot of new web specifications.

The dog says it sucked, and so does the frog and the kittycat... Even that guy... Cander, he told me it sucks to - so shut yo mouth crazzzyy lady!

**Cander** · Aug 26th, 2004, 12:09 PM

Dont make me get rude! You will cry.

**BodwadUK** · Aug 27th, 2004, 02:30 AM

ok then, here's to mendhaks and a kitty(the kitty's a bit deformed though):

o--^

What was the kitty ran over???

IE is rubbish but I still use it

**wossname** · Aug 27th, 2004, 05:20 AM

I'm going to report you lot to EDCPL (Evil and Demonic Cat's Protection League).

After I've written a stern letter to my ombudsman.

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