Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Recruitment issues and potential improvement
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:31:27
Message-Id: 20150205173119.30da4b3b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Recruitment issues and potential improvement by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:21:37 -0500
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3 > I'll start with the silliest:
4 >
5 > Explain briefly the purpose of the following tools: grep, cut, sed,
6 > cat, wc, awk
7
8 This is in no way silly when viewed in its proper historical context. It
9 was added because before the quiz existed, someone recruited a couple of
10 developers for Gentoo/Alt who didn't know what grep was, and they broke
11 the tree in a horrific way.
12
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14 Ciaran McCreesh

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