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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Arne wrote:
echo "<CTL-V>" | wc -w
Sorry to pick nits, but this will almost certainly fail due to quotation marks (and other "special" characters that musts be "escaped") contained in the article. Might I suggest an alternative:
wc -w<ENTER><CTRL-V><CTRL-D>
(Note: This is for Unix/Linux systems, or Windows/Mac systems with a Unix compatibility layer such as Cygwin.)
No worries, escaping bugs are one of the most common errors out there. For example, both Salon.com and Blogger.com have a bug which will screw up your comment, by unescaping HTML entitities such as & when you preview your post! (The solution is to copy, preview, paste, and then post.)
And they are the underlying source of the so-called "Cross-Site Scripting" security holes. Even languages like C and C++ are vulnerable (through the printf family of routines).
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
