[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released
Neal McBurnett
neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Sat Mar 22 22:07:12 GMT 2008
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:29:36PM -0600, Scott Scriven wrote:
> * David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:
> > > cat my-pkg-list > dpkg --set-selections
> >
> > I haven't used the feature in question, but that doesn't look right... Did you mean:
> > cat my-pkg-list | dpkg --set-selections
>
> Probably. And though I love cats, I feel the need to point
> something out... As Einstein said:
>
> You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.
> You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
> Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly
> the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
> The only difference is that there is no cat.
>
> With that in mind, it's a little cleaner to run this instead:
>
> dpkg --set-selections < my-pkg-list
>
> :)
LMFAO!!!
I've heard the quote, and done that exact disappearing cat trick for
over 30 years, but I've never seen the two put together before!
And I could explain both of those to my wife also!
Neal McBurnett http://mcburnett.org/neal/
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