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4:29 AM

A good prank I've just discovered—that, for a change from other pranks I've heard of, isn't alarming or destructive, just funny!

while :; do [ "${i:=0}" -lt 8 ] || i=0; tput setaf "$i"; sleep .5; : "$((i++))"; done &

Or change the 0s to 1s to avoid black; might be kinder. :)

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Faheem Mitha

9:24 AM

@Wildcard What does it do?

Some editing help, please.

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A: How is `apt` the new-and-improved `apt-get`?

apt is mostly intended as a new binary with some of the commonly used features of both apt-get and apt-cache (with more to be added later, probably), and with a "simplified" interface. Most of APT's available command line functionality is exposed via apt-cache and apt-get, but these commands aren...

The block quote at the end which contains comments by Michael Vogt is supposed to start with <mvo>, but that is missing. I'm guessing that this is being interpreted as some HTML directive, but I don't know how to fix it offhand. Can someone fix it for me, please? Thanks.

Wildcard

9:42 AM

@FaheemMitha Give it a try! :) It changes the font color of your terminal every half second (applies to new text only). Very rainbow-like!

(You can stop it with kill %% and tput setaf 7.)

Faheem Mitha

@Wildcard Interesting.

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