Morlock Elloi on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:07:46 +0200 (CEST) |
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> mv boss.class /dev/null This is probably the best example of total zaelot incompetence and ignorance which may provide a genetic excuse for fucking the working class (as if we need any.) Stupidity is a crime. You see, sounding geeky-cool is easy when the audience is composed of morons. What the above command does is renaming boss.class to /dev/null. Now, /dev/null is unix special file which absorbs all writes to it and is used to discard data by redirecting output to it. The above command effectively destroyes the special file and renames boss.class to /dev/null. As everyone still expects /dev/null to be the special, discard-all-data file, they will continue to use it but they will be actually writing to boss.class, whatever it may be, and the data will not be destroyed but maybe archived forever (boss.class could be a file pipe) or directly delivered to master.boss screen. I will leave the analogies to the audience. NAME mv -- move files SYNOPSIS mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory DESCRIPTION In its first form, the mv utility renames the file named by the source operand to the destination path named by the target operand. This form is assumed when the last operand does not name an already existing direc- tory. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net