Author: Dr Wingnut
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Find documents that contain a text string
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’…
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Fame
She might have meant something once, but I don’t know many people my age who care.Lily Allen, referring to Madonna
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Not a nice name, but a name
There’s a name for you ladies, but it isn’t used in high society, outside of a kennel.Joan Crawford in “The Womenâ€
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Narrow range
She runs the gamut of emotions, from A to B.Dorothy Parker, referring to early film acting of Katharine Hepburn
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First impressions
You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.Kathleen Turner’s first observation of William Hurt in “Body Heat.â€