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On 02/05/2015 12:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:21:37 -0500 |
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> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I'll start with the silliest: |
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>> Explain briefly the purpose of the following tools: grep, cut, sed, |
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>> cat, wc, awk |
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> This is in no way silly when viewed in its proper historical context. It |
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> was added because before the quiz existed, someone recruited a couple of |
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> developers for Gentoo/Alt who didn't know what grep was, and they broke |
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> the tree in a horrific way. |
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There are a lot of things that a candidate needs to know before he |
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becomes a developer, and this is one of them. My point is, is this |
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question an effective filter? No, because given unlimited time and |
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access to Google (or `man`), my mother could give you a satisfactory |
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answer. It's silly because it's pointless. |
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