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Entry Filed under: Mumblings, Software

March 24th, 2008

I've got a "neat" exam in Unix shell commands next week (and it's not the only one too), so I'm kind of obligated to use my Ubuntu Linux or MacOS installation to do the needed exercises... Seeing that Ubuntu refuses to work with TeamSpeak and XMMS together (it's actually TeamSpeak's fault - it grabs the default ALSA sound output and no other app can access it), I had to settle with MacOS. No tunes - no dice. Fortunately, the guys from Cupertino managed to squeeze in the BASH shell, so I'm good to go. It's still very boring to use today's modern GUI OSes to execute huge shell text commands with a few folders and files as an end result.

One of the most complicated tasks I need to do is to manage to use pipes along with regex-based searching, which looks very cryptic and leaves me with a "did I type that?" grin in the end... But hey, it's not as hard as it is boring, so I think I'll manage... Hopefully. (Must... resist... from... watching... retarded... 4'o clock... TV shows...)

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