Dr Wingnut

Day: January 27, 2012

  • Find documents that contain a text string

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    I needed to find the string “set-aside” in all the old PowerPoint presentations that I had to find a chart that I knew existed.  I had our current resident expert, Eric FJ, help me find the incantation I was looking for.  Starting from my current base directory where the tree of documents existed:grep -R ‘set-aside’…

  • Fame

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    She might have meant something once, but I don’t know many people my age who care.Lily Allen, referring to Madonna