From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 29 9:53:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.goldsword.com (rapier.goldsword.com [199.170.202.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA1837B405 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:53:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfarmer@localhost) by rapier.goldsword.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19412; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:58:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:58:22 -0500 (EST) From: "John T. Farmer" Message-Id: <200203291758.MAA19412@rapier.goldsword.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Use of jot command [WAS: Re: sendmail_enable NONE ] Cc: jfarmer@goldsword.com In-Reply-To: <20020328163551.B77823@shell.wetworks.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:35:51 Alan Clegg said: > > > When was the last time you used jot(1)? Do you also want it removed from > > your installed system? > > Woah! Cool command... can't really think of how I'd use it, but... > > AlanC Jot is used to generate data for testing, when you need random data, patterned data, datasets of specific sizes, contents, etc. Quite a useful command when debugging, developing, etc. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message