[geeks] ksh for loop question

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 11:45:15 (-0500), doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] ksh for loop question
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:05:10PM -0400, Brian Hechinger had the audacity to opine:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:38:31PM -0500, doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote:
> > > 
> > >  cat file_list.txt| awk print '{wget "http://www.server.com/" $1}' | sh
> > 
> > nice.
> > 
> > -brian
> > -- 
> 
>   Except it has a great big ugly typo:
>   it should be 
> 
> cat file_list.txt| awk '{print "wget "http://www.server.com/" $1}' |sh

You should really try testing what you type before you post it!  :-)

(and thinking a wee tiny bit harder about eliminating the most obvious
unnecessary overhead and uglyness -- cat should be banned!)

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