gobble.wa@gmail.com made a similar post to the freebsd-questions mailing list a month ago. In his case the question was how to print an md5sum along with the file names in a given directory. I saved it because I thought it was a clever hack.
A lot of times I catch myself in the mindset of taking a step back and saying "here are the set of tools I have at hand to accomplish a task" without realizing that I should simultaneously be taking a step "in"--so to speak--and acknowledging that the tools I have to work with are not immutable tools cast of iron; they are malleable and can be re-tooled to suit my purposes.. and that sometimes going that route can be the simplest--and in fact "best"--solution.
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gobble.wa@gmail.com made a similar post to the freebsd-questions mailing list a month ago. In his case the question was how to print an md5sum along with the file names in a given directory. I saved it because I thought it was a clever hack.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-Se...
A lot of times I catch myself in the mindset of taking a step back and saying "here are the set of tools I have at hand to accomplish a task" without realizing that I should simultaneously be taking a step "in"--so to speak--and acknowledging that the tools I have to work with are not immutable tools cast of iron; they are malleable and can be re-tooled to suit my purposes.. and that sometimes going that route can be the simplest--and in fact "best"--solution.