A weekly meeting of the lads Originaly held on a friday nights in Frosts trailor-tent coss I think it was the only time Al was aloud out to play, but now they happen like 4 times a week in a viriaty of places like Bosses house on thursdays, Frost house on a week end, and Joes house most Fridays.
Can invole alot of beef and often high quanties of alcohol (if Garton turns up that is)
Can invole alot of beef and often high quanties of alcohol (if Garton turns up that is)
D:"I know whats going on!"
Garton:"I DONT! I LOVE GATHRINGS! WOOOOOOOO!.....Now pay me for the motorhead ticket so I can get wasted!"
D:"Ok then"
Garton:"I DONT! I LOVE GATHRINGS! WOOOOOOOO!.....Now pay me for the motorhead ticket so I can get wasted!"
D:"Ok then"
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O'Reilly Net: Hi Shlomi!
Shlomi Fish: Hi!
O'Reilly Net: So, what has motivated you to write the book?
Shlomi Fish: Well, I realised people use cat so often that they don't take the time to fully investigate it and learn it. For example, many people I worked with believed that cat can only be used to output one file at a time. So to output several files they used something like:
(cat file1.txt ; cat file2.txt ; cat file3.txt) | command
The horror! cat accepts several files as arguments. So you can write it as:
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt | command
This has motivated me to write the book, to make people fully understand the command.
O'Reilly Net: Isn't mastering cat supposed to be quite easy? Does it really necessitates its own book?
Shlomi Fish: Hell no! Mastering cat is not easy at all. In fact, mastering cat is almost as difficult as herding cats.
For example, one case where I found that people truly underestimate the power of cat is in the prefixing a line example. You can do that with:
echo "This would be the first line" | cat - myfile.txt > myfile.txt.new
mv -f myfile.txt.new myfile.txt
But people do not realize that and instead opted to use sed, awk, or even perl (!). It can be taken further, of course. If the prefix is already in its own file, you can simply use cat prefix.txt myfile.txt
Of course, if you want to append the same text to both the start and the end of a file, you can't do that with cat - myfile.txt -. It simply doesn't work that way. So, I end up explaining a lot about UNIX pipeline concepts in the book.
O'Reilly Net: So what else does your book cover?
Well, I cover many things there. Among them are:
1. History of the cat command.
2. Differences between the various cat implementations. (GNU, the BSDs, System V, etc.)
3. cat equivalents in other operating systems (DOS, Win32, VMS, OS/390, etc.)
4. Overview of the GNU cat codebase (for programmers).
I'm also focusing on the various cat flags, which aid in its interactive use. For example the -E/--show-ends flag, that places dollar signs at the end of the lines.
Except for that I'm also covering dog which is a program that provides a superset of the cat program. I should also mention mouse which aimed to provide an even greater superset, and was never released. Rumors say some parts of it are based on code of the leaked Windows 2000 sources.
O'Reilly Net: Your book seems bound to be popular. (for some values of popularity) What can we expect from you next?
Shlomi Fish: Well, I hope many people will buy the book, or read it online so they'll be educated about cat. If you like "Mastering cat", look forward to my next book - "Mastering echo". I expect it to be published next fall.
Shlomi Fish: Hi!
O'Reilly Net: So, what has motivated you to write the book?
Shlomi Fish: Well, I realised people use cat so often that they don't take the time to fully investigate it and learn it. For example, many people I worked with believed that cat can only be used to output one file at a time. So to output several files they used something like:
(cat file1.txt ; cat file2.txt ; cat file3.txt) | command
The horror! cat accepts several files as arguments. So you can write it as:
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt | command
This has motivated me to write the book, to make people fully understand the command.
O'Reilly Net: Isn't mastering cat supposed to be quite easy? Does it really necessitates its own book?
Shlomi Fish: Hell no! Mastering cat is not easy at all. In fact, mastering cat is almost as difficult as herding cats.
For example, one case where I found that people truly underestimate the power of cat is in the prefixing a line example. You can do that with:
echo "This would be the first line" | cat - myfile.txt > myfile.txt.new
mv -f myfile.txt.new myfile.txt
But people do not realize that and instead opted to use sed, awk, or even perl (!). It can be taken further, of course. If the prefix is already in its own file, you can simply use cat prefix.txt myfile.txt
Of course, if you want to append the same text to both the start and the end of a file, you can't do that with cat - myfile.txt -. It simply doesn't work that way. So, I end up explaining a lot about UNIX pipeline concepts in the book.
O'Reilly Net: So what else does your book cover?
Well, I cover many things there. Among them are:
1. History of the cat command.
2. Differences between the various cat implementations. (GNU, the BSDs, System V, etc.)
3. cat equivalents in other operating systems (DOS, Win32, VMS, OS/390, etc.)
4. Overview of the GNU cat codebase (for programmers).
I'm also focusing on the various cat flags, which aid in its interactive use. For example the -E/--show-ends flag, that places dollar signs at the end of the lines.
Except for that I'm also covering dog which is a program that provides a superset of the cat program. I should also mention mouse which aimed to provide an even greater superset, and was never released. Rumors say some parts of it are based on code of the leaked Windows 2000 sources.
O'Reilly Net: Your book seems bound to be popular. (for some values of popularity) What can we expect from you next?
Shlomi Fish: Well, I hope many people will buy the book, or read it online so they'll be educated about cat. If you like "Mastering cat", look forward to my next book - "Mastering echo". I expect it to be published next fall.
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Get the a fuck mothering vampire mug.Mad Gatherings are overnight (sometimes multiple nights) camping parties run by Broseph, Brolum and Broheim (who together make Aros, the god of parties).
The name originates from a blue letter "m" which was stolen from a sign that originally said "Home Farm / Business Park" and now, thanks to the Aros, says "Hoe Farm / Buns". (All the letters removed were removed by Broseph and the famous "m" is now in the possession of Brolum)
Mad Gatherings are often host to some drug usage, drunkenness, sex and firespinning and firebreathing.
They are not to be missed if you ever have a chance to go.
The name originates from a blue letter "m" which was stolen from a sign that originally said "Home Farm / Business Park" and now, thanks to the Aros, says "Hoe Farm / Buns". (All the letters removed were removed by Broseph and the famous "m" is now in the possession of Brolum)
Mad Gatherings are often host to some drug usage, drunkenness, sex and firespinning and firebreathing.
They are not to be missed if you ever have a chance to go.
Person1: Dude, you going to the next Mad Gatherings?
Person2: The next MG? Wouldn't miss it for the world!
Person2: The next MG? Wouldn't miss it for the world!
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Chris: Hey, Mrs. Calhoun. How are you doing tod-
Janet (mother-in-law): Don't talk to me! Your lucky you're allowed to LOOK at my daughter without me slapping you! You know that she almost married my best friend's brother's aunt's son-in-law? Yeah, he went to HARVARD. And where did you go? Community college? Whoop-dee-doo. Hooray for failure! You know she could divorce you whenever she wanted to! If you ever say ANYTHING rude to her, I told her she has permission to WALK OUT ON THIS MARRIAGE. Yeah, she can find a better man. Like the one that went to Harvard. Yeah, MR. HARVARD IS BETTER THAN YOU.
Chris: I HAVE MOTHERINLAWSTROPHOBIA!! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU INSANE, PSYCHO FREAK!
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Marie: Hey Mrs. Henderson!
Katie (mother-in-law): Suck it.
Marie: *in whisper* Motherinlawsrophobia sucks.
Janet (mother-in-law): Don't talk to me! Your lucky you're allowed to LOOK at my daughter without me slapping you! You know that she almost married my best friend's brother's aunt's son-in-law? Yeah, he went to HARVARD. And where did you go? Community college? Whoop-dee-doo. Hooray for failure! You know she could divorce you whenever she wanted to! If you ever say ANYTHING rude to her, I told her she has permission to WALK OUT ON THIS MARRIAGE. Yeah, she can find a better man. Like the one that went to Harvard. Yeah, MR. HARVARD IS BETTER THAN YOU.
Chris: I HAVE MOTHERINLAWSTROPHOBIA!! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU INSANE, PSYCHO FREAK!
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Marie: Hey Mrs. Henderson!
Katie (mother-in-law): Suck it.
Marie: *in whisper* Motherinlawsrophobia sucks.
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