Comment on The best ping story I've ever heardparentComments−kosma11yIn a typical UNIX fashion, there's a program that runs programs: ping 127.0.0.1 | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | xargs -d'\n' -n1 say−masklinn11y-d is a GNU extension, won't work on OSX (short of having installed and running GNU xargs), and it's not needed either in this case.And `sed -e <command>` is redundant, `-e` is used to specify multiple commands.
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In a typical UNIX fashion, there's a program that runs programs:
-d is a GNU extension, won't work on OSX (short of having installed and running GNU xargs), and it's not needed either in this case.
And `sed -e <command>` is redundant, `-e` is used to specify multiple commands.