[TAG] Two cent tip -- proposal

[Dr. Parthasarathy S]

Although I do not show up too often on TAG, believe me I read every issue of
LG and of course 2-cent tips.
I do use these ideas often both for myself and for teaching.

Thanks for all the great job you are doing.

partha
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On 4 February 2010 11:26, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:47:22AM +0530, Dr. Parthasarathy S wrote:
> > YES I agree. Your script is better than mine.
>
> Oh-oh. Context error warning! :)
>
> Partha, this wasn't any sort of competition; as an example of what
> happens here, I've just sent in a 2-cent tip about using 'wget' to
> download files based on directory listings - and I fully expect that
> someone here will tell me that I could have done all that by using the
> "--download-all-the-files-in-the-directory-listing" option or something
> like that. :) The thing is, though, that it wouldn't be a question of
> "better" or "worse": both methods are useful. E.g., I'd learn about the
> option from the follow-up post; someone else might learn about Perl
> regular expressions, which I used in my tip, from my post.
>
> My overall point is that we share this information, these ideas, with
> the Linux community - and all of us get to learn from _all_ the
> information in the exchange. So, my answer isn't necessarily "better"
> than yours; yours may well be more useful for someone else's purposes.
>
> > If you authorise me, I will
> > resubmit my stuff using your script (after I add a comment line
> acknowledging
> > your contribution). Or I can just use the script for my internal usage
> and not
> > submit for publication.
>
> There's nothing to resubmit, or authorize: TAG is open to our readers
> for the exact purpose of hosting this kind of discussion. As I mentioned
> the last time, all TAG content, minus flames and spam, gets published in
> the Mailbag section of LG - so readers get to see the whole exchange.
>
> > I thank you for your frank opinion and CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. That is
> how we
> > all learn.
>
> You're welcome! And you're right - this is indeed one of the best ways
> to learn. TAG was one of the keystones of my own learning process about
> Linux, especially in the early days - and it still remains a useful tool
> that keeps up my skills, among other things.
>
>
> --
> * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
>
>


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