[geeks] The word that is the bane of my existence
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 18:08:19 CDT 2007
Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
> "
> " Mike Meredith wrote:
> " >> I didn't mean "update". I meant "udpate". 8-)
> " >
> " > Ok, so what is "udpate" ? A UDP-based denial of service attack tool ?
> "
> " It is a misspelling of "update" that I repeatedly type and which causes
> " me much consternation by being the bug in many scripts I write.
>
> the solution is simple!
>
> alias udpate=update
> at the head of every script...
Actually, what I end up doing most of the time is running all of my
scripts through "sed 's/udpate/update/g'" before I begin debugging.
Still not cool though. Bad fingers! Bad!
Peace... Sridhar
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