I can't believe I just did that...

[azekeil]

First, let me put what follows in some context. I have been very busy at work, moving servers around and hacking files etc.

I remembered something I was going to tell kissycat1000 about and my thought process ran "Oh yes, must remember to tell kissycat1000 that I edited the bath and took out all the hair.. wait.. something's not right with that sentence.. urrrr.."

So, I bring you DIY in linux:

# vi /usr/local/lib/bath
:1,$s/hair//g
:wq!

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

Shurely %s/hair//g.

Or just sed -i 's/hair//g' /usr/local/lib/bath

Must... resist..... argh! *gasp* too weak...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

# perl -e 'open FUZZY, "/usr/local/share/bath"; @contents = ; close FUZZY; $contents = "@contents"; $contents =~ s!hair!!sig; open CLEAN, ">/usr/local/share/bath"; print CLEAN $contents; close CLEAN;'

Re: Must... resist..... argh! *gasp* too weak...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Bah... poxy HTML.

@contents = <FUZZY>;

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

####
out of cheese error
redo universe from start
####

[cryx]

LOL!!!

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

cheese?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

well I thought about sed, but I wanted to edit rather than 'cheat' ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

And I must admit, I'm not so hot with vi. Had to look up the exact syntax for the replace command, which is why it looks a bit unhappy.

Re: Must... resist..... argh! *gasp* too weak...

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Lol! I like the /usr/local/share/bath ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I know, sad .__.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

A P'Terry Pratchett reference - daemongirl will know what I mean ;@)

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

You could always try booting her up with this in the morning...

path=landing\bathroom\bath
REM hair

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

#define BLOCKAGE HAIR

int main(void) {
  int fd;
  char contents;

  fd = open("/dev/plumbing", O_RDWR | O_EXCL);
  ioctl(fd, IOCTL_SETDEV, IOCTLSD_BATH);
  lseek(fd, BLOCKAGE, SEEK_SET);
  while (read(fd, &contents, 1)) {
    if (contents == CONTENT_HAIR) {
      lseek(fd, -1, SEEK_CUR);
      write(fd, CONTENT_WATER, 1);
    }
  }
  close(fd);
  return 0;
}

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's more worrying:

• I considered C to be a practical and fast alternative.


• I wrote all of that in C.


• I syntax checked it.


• I looked at man pages to check I remembered the function call syntax correctly.


• I haven't done any error checking.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Stop the G33king! It's getting me all excited. :-)

[barty.livejournal.com]

I have been known to grep my pockets for coins.

[chocojon.livejournal.com]

GEEKS!

oh, yeah. Hi, I'm Mr. Pot. ... :)