[Cryptography] Simpler programs?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Apr 19 03:46:27 EDT 2014
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Obviously anybody who thinks that real cats don't have options has never
> owned a cat.
You don't own a cat; the cat owns *you*, and they know this. We really
need to get this security paradigm right, if we are to survive as a
species. It's only their lack of opposable thumbs is what stops them.
> More seriously, though, "cat -u" is sometimes important, because
> sometimes you really do need unbuffered output, especially if the file
> or files are devices or other special files.
My most useful pussy-cat option is "-v"; much better than "od" or "hd".
-- Dave
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