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a=0;for fle in *; do b=`for c in $(seq 0 $a); do echo -n " "; done`; mv "$fle" "$b"; a=$(($a+1)); done

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Tom Allender:

2007-08-24 21:08 39 mins after the Original Article

So… you end up with file called Space, SpaceSpace, SpaceSpaceSpace?

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Aquarion:

2007-08-24 21:51 43 mins after Tom Allender

Yup.

And for extra credit, where’s this useful?

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Bluebottle:

2007-08-24 22:05 15 mins after Aquarion

In space?

(Why isn’t firefox showing me the field names for name/url/email? Luckily auto-complete is telling me what should go where.)

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Aquarion:

2007-08-24 22:10 5 mins after Bluebottle

Because the new design makes them white on light gray, which is unhelpful.

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Tom Allender:

2007-08-24 22:18 28 mins after Aquarion

My guesses are:

– to make an operating system other than Linux do something cunning with file sort ordering? – something MP3 player related?

-ascii art?

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Aquarion:

2007-08-24 23:00 41 mins after Tom Allender

Ascii art is good, but it’s not the one.

The correct answer:

To remove all the labels from the icons on my windows desktop.

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