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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:24:15 -0700
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Noah Evans wrote:

> A really bad habit of mine is relying on the history to do things,
> Rather than spend the initial cost of effort to write a shell function
> and remember it, I'm constantly using Bash's tab completion and history
> functions to avoid having to expend any effort organizing my patterns of
> use and solving problems. Everything I do is an ad hoc solution.

there's some real humor here, in some sense, as this is what we did in the 
70s with Unix V6, before stuff like history. Some things have come full 
circle.

ron