[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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