[clug] Command of the Hour

[Robert Edwards]

I usually use the 'mail' command to do the equivalent of what you are
doing with 'log':

bob at puddleduck:~$ mail bob at wherever -s Garden
Need to prune the almond tree
.
bob at puddleduck:~%

Does most of what I see 'log' doing, but I can do it from diverse
(Internet connected) systems and my mail reader is usually not too
bad at filing messages by sender/subject and searching through them.
Also, mail works not too badly for collaborative work as well
(apparently, some people even wrote a Unix-like kernel using internet
mail for collaboration... :-)

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

Peter Barker wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Ian wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I want to start a bit of a discussion here - I want everyone to
>> chime in and tell the list of any random, obscure and useful commands
> 
> I've thought for many years I should be working more logging into my 
> workflows.  I decided to spend the few minutes to actually do it a while 
> back.
> 
> ----
> pbarker at milligan:~$ log "Cleaned up log command a little"
> 200809161159 - Cleaned up log command a little
> pbarker at milligan:~$ log "Added a single comment to log command"
> 200809161200 - Added a single comment to log command
> pbarker at milligan:~$ tail -2 ~/notes/log
> 200809161159 - Cleaned up log command a little
> 200809161200 - Added a single comment to log command
> pbarker at milligan:~$ log "Noted that the almond tree needs pruning" garden
> Section 'garden' (file /nethome/pbarker/notes/logs/garden) does not exist
> pbarker at milligan:~$ touch /nethome/pbarker/notes/logs/garden
> pbarker at milligan:~$ log "Noted that the almond tree needs pruning" garden
> 200809161201 - Noted that the almond tree needs pruning
> pbarker at milligan:~$ cat /nethome/pbarker/notes/logs/garden
> 200809161201 - Noted that the almond tree needs pruning
> ---
> 
> There must be several similar commands out there, but *finding* one is 
> the trick.  Writing one seemed easier (and, of course, the NIH syndrome).
> 
> begin-base64 644 log
> IyEvYmluL3NoCgpCQVNFRElSPSQoL2Jpbi9scyAtZCB+cGJhcmtlci9ub3Rl
> cykKCmZ1bmN0aW9uIHVzYWdlKCkgewogICAgZWNobyAiVXNhZ2U6IGxvZyBj
> b21tZW50IFtzZWN0aW9uXSIKICAgIGV4aXQ7Cn0KCk1FU1NBR0U9JDEKU0VD
> VElPTj0kMgoKaWYgWyAteiAiJE1FU1NBR0UiIF07IHRoZW4KICB1c2FnZQpm
> aQoKTE9HRklMRT0iJEJBU0VESVIvbG9nIgppZiBbICEgLXogIiRTRUNUSU9O
> IiBdOyB0aGVuCiBMT0dGSUxFPSIkQkFTRURJUi9sb2dzLyRTRUNUSU9OIgog
> aWYgWyAhIC1lICIkTE9HRklMRSIgXTsgdGhlbgogICAgIGVjaG8gIlNlY3Rp
> b24gJyRTRUNUSU9OJyAoZmlsZSAkTE9HRklMRSkgZG9lcyBub3QgZXhpc3Qi
> CiAgICAgZXhpdDsKIGZpCmZpCgpEQVRFPWBkYXRlICcrJVklbSVkJUglTSdg
> ClNUUklORz0iJERBVEUgLSAkTUVTU0FHRSIKCmVjaG8gIiRTVFJJTkciCmVj
> aG8gJFNUUklORyA+PiRMT0dGSUxFCg==
> ====
> 
> Another gem I came across recently was "stress";  loads a machine's 
> disks/cpu/memory/IO.  I used it to load a machine so I could check its 
> power-consumption-under-load.
> 
> Yours,