Sometimes you feel like you're living in a bad movie sketch:

<shiznizzl> how do I search backwards in less?
   <Remosi> ?
   <Remosi> shiznizzl: ?
<Cuchulain> ?
   <Remosi> shiznizzl: the key ?
<shiznizzl> Remosi: yeah
<Cuchulain> or / for forwards
<Cuchulain> Remosi: ?
<Cuchulain>  / ? !
   <Remosi> Cuchulain: what? :)
<shiznizzl>  / is forwards
<shiznizzl> how do I search back?
   <Remosi> shiznizzl: ?
<shiznizzl> from bottom up
<shiznizzl> ?
   <Remosi> ?
<Cuchulain> yes\
<Cuchulain>  ?
<shiznizzl> look
<shiznizzl> fuckers
   <Remosi> shiznizzl: who's on first?
<shiznizzl> oh
<Cuchulain> hahahahah
<shiznizzl> hahahaha

Read a transcript of the original skit by Abbott and Costello, or a video store version.

    <DuEy^> is there a regex for "A can occur 0 or 1 times"
<sammydre_> +
<sammydre_> er
<sammydre_> ?
<sammydre_> A?
    <DuEy^> character A
 <meanphil> A?
<sammydre_> yes
<sammydre_> A?
<sammydre_> is the ANSWER

14:43 < alastair> there's a good wiki writeup on it
14:43 < shweppsie> wlug wiki?
14:49 < shweppsie> alastair: got a link to that page?
14:50 <@Cuchulain> shweppsie: BashNotes probably
15:05 < shweppsie> ok I'm still stuck on this redirecting output. I'm trying to do it from __within__ a
                   bash script. "exec 1>/tmp/out.txt" seems to work for stdout but I just can't work out
                   how to get stderr too.
15:06 < alastair> "How does redirection work from inside a script?"
15:07 < shweppsie> well that's what I'm asking yer.
15:07 <@Cuchulain> shweppsie: www.wlug.org.nz/BashNotes
15:07 < alastair> I was quoting a topic heading on the BashNotes wiki page
15:07 <@Cuchulain> and look for the section titled "How does redirection work from inside a script?"
15:07 < alastair> also, what Cuchulain said
15:07 <@Cuchulain> it's right there
15:07 < shweppsie> doh
15:07 <@Cuchulain> then go on to read www.wlug.org.nz/WhosOnFirst

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