cat pipe. Was: Sony audio (MSV), and LAME is lame

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 15:43:59 EDT 2007


On 04 Oct 2007 15:17:16 -0400, Kevin D. Clark <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> It's also useful when you want to do parlor tricks like this:
>
>   time ssh marvin.lab4.terranbase2.nasa.org.mars cat </etc/motd | diff /etc/motd -

  Hey, a new one!  UUOR!  (Useless Use of Redirection.)  "cat
/etc/motd" is just as good as "cat < /etc/motd".  ;-)

> (if this example doesn't work for you, it must have something to do
> with the port-knocking scheme...keep trying though...)

  Pfft.  Everyone knows they faked the mars landings.  ;-)

-- Ben


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