Comments on: Today’s interesting discovery http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4 Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:15:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Alexis http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4#comment-13531 Alexis Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:53:15 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4#comment-13531 There's a command line option for vim which tells it not to swap: "-n". Still wouldn't use it for files of that size, but it can be useful. There’s a command line option for vim which tells it not to swap: “-n”.

Still wouldn’t use it for files of that size, but it can be useful.

]]> By: Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4#comment-13276 Paul Tomblin Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:27:58 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4#comment-13276 Actually, I ended up doing it with <code>sed -n '0,/^From.*2005/p' < old.mbox > new.mbox</code> and then <code>head -n -1 new.mbox</code> because I couldn't figure out how to make it leave off the last line in sed. Actually, I ended up doing it with
sed -n '0,/^From.*2005/p' < old.mbox > new.mbox and then head -n -1 new.mbox because I couldn’t figure out how to make it leave off the last line in sed.

]]> By: Frank Ch. Eigler http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4#comment-13275 Frank Ch. Eigler Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:25:26 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/12/03/todays-interesting-discovery-4#comment-13275 Dude, are head(1) and tail(1) too old-school for you? Dude, are head(1) and tail(1) too old-school for you?

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