[PLUG] try this

[Jay J. LaBelle]

I recognized it even without mentally processing it.  Just count the
letters and realize that it was written by someone who enough about Linux
to use a pipe, and you can guess pretty easily.  You probably don't even
have to count the letters.


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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, patrick.n.fitzgerald.1 wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Brent Meshier wrote:
> 
> > execute this command in Linux:
> > 
> > echo njdsptpgu tvdlt | tr [b-z] [a-y]
> > 
> > (sorry, I thought it was funny, just had to forward it)
> 
> I wonder how many of us (myself being one) instantly realized what it does
> without even running the command (or consulting the tr man page). 
> heh. sign of a geek, I guess. 
> 
> --
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>    --fortune (5)
> 
> 
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