Re: newaliases error in OSR6

In article <021f01c62663$c7721c80$6800000a@venti>,
Brian K. White <brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv@xxxxxxx>
>Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
>To: <distro@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 3:05 PM
>Subject: Re: newaliases error in OSR6
>
>
>> In article <1138643286.750919.298990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> B...@xxxxxxxxx <brent.bolin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Is Unix one of those operating systems where the syntax has to be exact
>>>or can it kinda be?
>>
>> It just has so many commands that even a typo can do something
>> quite unexpected.
>>
>> Let your finger slip when trying to type 'vi' and get 'ci'
>> and you'll be in RCS - Revision Contorl System. When that happened
>> to me I finally got out of it and thought I'd lost the important
>> file I was working on.
>>
>> Then I went into vi again to edit the file and it was gone.
>>
>> Panic set in and I performed an ls -latr and right there at the
>> bottom of the list was the file name with a ,v appended.

>> Unix forces you to improve your typing.

>crotab -e

>It's a wonderful thing.
>Used it a lot and espoused it's wonderfulness to any who got within earshot.

>Then one day I discovered the hard way that the r key is right
>next to the e key and got introduced to the wonderfulness of
>crontab -r.

Same trap I fell into just on a different file. I'm glad to hear
I'm not the only one who does things like that. Or maybe you and
are some of the few who will admin to make mistreaks.

>Now I still use crontab -e because it is still handy, but now I
>_always_ know where I can quickly recover a copy of crontab from
>yesterday!

Food for thought.

Bill


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