Hats off to you merlyn!

Sometime in the mid nineties I was a regular lurker on comp.unix.shell, I first noticed you for your "useless use of cat" awards (which I dutifully learnt from) then I started to look for your other posts. Since you seemed to know your stuff and you kept talking about this perl thing I decided I better learn about that too. I was a communications technician and unix wannabe with some rudimentary shell/sed/awk etc skills at the time, now I am full time Unix System Administrator and sometime perl programmer. Your posts do make a difference!

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