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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