Work

I get a lot of cold calls. Today I heard a voicemail from someone with whom I’ve never spoken at a consulting firm I’ve never heard of wanting to tell all about the “race horses” they have available at their firm.

Whenever I walk down this hallway, I always think “Alert Lobster.”

Say you need to md5sum 46 files, all ending in “.foo” in a single directory. You might use your standard md5sum *.

Today I revisited some scripts I last touched on December 5, 2011 for very very carefully archiving research data with checksums, an audit trail, and other very very careful things like that.

I think I once knew this, but forgot about it. Still, the fact remains: I Did Not Know about multitail.