cat - !rant Fun fact Did you know that there is a UNIX command called "tac" which prints the contents of a file fr - devRant

Ranter

Comments

28

m93mark

272

9y

Time to add "alias cat=tac" in .bashrc and .zshrc
9

tahnik

38541

9y

@m93mark lucifer here. Are you looking for a job?
1

m93mark

272

9y

@tahnik I still need to absorb the last bit of evilness, I'm mostly done
2

sirjofri

507

9y

alias ls='sl'. sl must be installed...
2

yendenikhil

1809

9y

@sirjofri actually I will do alias ls=Is (this is capital i and s not L and s)
1

nerd-san

9764

9y

Ha.
1

jonjo

940

9y

No idea why but I feel the need to make a russian roulette script which will cat the file, forward args and pipe the content randomly into either tac or cat.
0

BinaryByter

8541

9y

WTF??? LINUS TORVALS seem to think it makes linux look nicer if he adds useless features xD
5

yendenikhil

1809

9y

@linuxer4fun Easter eggs like this is pride of developers. Don't tell me you never added some sneaky feature with some humor.
2

kpenc

2119

9y

@linuxer4fun There is a slight chance that tac has been written by Stallman. The FSF did most of the command line utilities.
1

BinaryByter

8541

9y

@yendenikhil I did
0

lexxer

713

9y

Time to summon Satan I guess...
0

zshh

3818

9y

Today I learned
0

TheLazyGoan

1834

9y

I use tac to read lengthy log files. Just pipe it to less command and voila
0

magnusi

582

9y

I knew, but cool that you posted it here anyway

Related Rants

devRant © 2021 Hexical Labs LLC
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service