IIRC, single quotes have a -1 effect, braces offset 2 characters and pipes negate 4 characters. All alphanumeric characters have a weight of positive 1. Be careful of characters which are not completely formed. These so-called dimple characters can cause the Supreme Court of UN*X (aka init) to rewrite the command altogether. On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:25:23AM -0600, andy at theasis.com wrote: > > > w | head -1 | awk '{ print $3 }' > > > > is less keystrokes than "uptime" :) > > > > Oh, I didn't mention that real geeks have a somewhat different geometric > space in which they perform keystroke counting. > > Andy > > > Adam Maloney > > Systems Administrator > > Sihope Communications > > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 andy at theasis.com wrote: > > > > > > of course everyone is going to say uptime, but real geeks cat /proc/uptime > > > > ;) > > > > > > No, I think the *real* geek would think of that, but opt for the solution > > > with fewer keystrokes. Geek would instead go for the letter "w". But > > > perhaps the excessive output would be deemed undesirable, and so the > > > ultimate result would be along the lines of creating "alias u = 'uptime'". > > > This has the added advantage of customizing one's personal environment so > > > that it's more obscure to the layman. > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > Thank You, > > > > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tclug-list mailing list > > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >